Patent ID: 8023802
Filing Date: 2011-09-20
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A signal processing method for slide show reproduction which continuously reproduces a plurality of slides, comprising the steps of: selecting at least one image data to be displayed on each of the plurality of slides, from among a plurality of image data stored on a recording medium in accordance with a user operation; setting a display layout, for each of the plurality of slides, corresponding to a number of the image data selected in said selecting step, from among a plurality of display layouts prepared in advance, and setting an operation key code for implementing a predetermined reproduction function, for each of the plurality of slides; storing an ID of each of the plurality of slides, information indicating the image data selected in said selecting step, information indicating the display layout set for each slide in said setting step, and information indicating the operation key code set in said setting step on the recording medium in relation to each other; and reading out the plurality of image data stored on the recording medium and the ID of each of the plurality of slides, the information indicating the image data selected in said selecting step, the information indicating the display layout set in said setting step, and the information indicating the operation key code set in said setting step stored on the recording medium in said storing step, and continuously reproducing the plurality of slides in accordance with the ID and information read out from the recording medium.