Patent ID: 9083939
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A moving image playback apparatus comprising: a recording unit configured to record on a recording medium a moving image file including moving image data, wherein for each moving image file being recorded the recording unit records the moving image data in only one recording mode including a digest recording mode and a high frame rate recording mode, wherein a chapter is added within a predetermined time to a frame corresponding to a position to which the moving image data is added in the moving image file in said digest recording mode; a playback unit configured to play back moving image data from the recording medium; and a controller configured to change a playback position of the moving image data being played back by the playback unit according to a predetermined instruction from a user for skipping a playback position of moving image data, wherein the controller detects the recording mode of the moving image data being played back and selects, according to the detected recording mode of the moving image data being played back, one of a plurality of skip search modes including a first skip search mode in which the playback position of the moving image data currently played back is changed to a frame a predetermined time before or after a frame currently played back, and a second skip search mode in which the playback position of the moving image data currently played back is changed to a frame corresponding to a chapter before or after the frame currently played back, and wherein the controller selects the first skip search mode if the recording mode of the moving image data currently played back is said high frame rate recording mode, and selects the second skip search mode if the recording mode of the moving image data currently played back is said digest recording mode.