Patent ID: 6457057
Filing Date: 2002-09-24
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A method of displaying a plurality of specified ones of still and/or moving pictures in an array of windows provided on a display screen of a computer based system, the method comprising the steps of:reducing in picture size said still and/or moving pictures into size-reduced pictures with a picture size of said windows; coding said size-reduced pictures into coded size-reduced still and/or moving pictures, which each comprise a plurality of slices; for each coded size-reduced picture, generating slice information which associates each slice of said each coded size-reduced picture with an offset and a length of the slice, said offset being a distance from the beginning of said each coded size-reduced still or moving picture; storing said coded size-reduced pictures in a first area of a mass storage device and storing respective pieces of said slice information in a second area of said mass storage device; in response to a reception of a predetermined signal and a list of said specified still and/or moving pictures, compiling a frame of picture comprising coded size-reduced pictures for said specified pictures by using said slice information; and decoding said compiled frame for display.