Patent ID: 6445876
Filing Date: 2002-09-03
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
An image reproduction apparatus for playing back moving pictures recorded in a record medium, comprising:stored image selection means for receiving selection of any scene of a moving picture under playback; image storing means for storing one or a plurality of still pictures constituting, in the moving pictures, a scene or scenes whose selection is received by said stored image selection means; address storing means for storing addresses indicating, in the moving pictures, positions of respective still pictures stored in said image storing means; menu displaying means for displaying said one or plurality of still pictures stored in said image storing means; playback image selection means for receiving selection of one out of said one or plurality of still pictures displayed by said menu displaying means; and jump playback means for playing back a moving picture from said record medium, starting from a position which is stored in said address storing means and corresponds to the still picture whose selection is received by said playback image selections means, as a playback starting position in the moving picture, wherein: when said menu displaying means is directed to carry out menu displaying while the moving picture is being played back, the menu displaying means halts playback of the moving picture and displays the one or plurality of still pictures stored in said image storing means, and when said menu displaying means is directed to end the menu displaying while the one or plurality of still pictures are being displayed, the menu displaying means resumes the playback of said halted moving picture.