Patent ID: 6327420
Filing Date: 2001-12-04
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
An image displaying method comprising the steps of:displaying one video clip or a plurality of video clips of temporally continuous material images on a screen as a first image group in a first window on said screen;displaying in a second window, concurrently with said first window, on said screen, when one of said video clips is selected from said first image group to request for a more detailed display of the selected video clip, image extracted at an interval of a first time period from the temporally continuous material images constituting said selected video clip as a second image group;displaying in a third window, concurrently with said first and second window, on said screen, when one image is selected from said second image group to request for a more detailed display of the selected image, image extracted at an interval of a second time period shorter than that of said first time period as a third image group, said image occurring over a time period before and after, before, or after the selected image within said second image group;then displaying on said screen, when one image is further selected from the image group displayed on said screen to request for a more detailed display of the selected image, image extracted relative to said selected image from said temporally continuous material images at an interval of a time period shorter than that of said image group including the selected image; anddisplaying on said screen, when one image is selected from an N-th image group to request for a more detailed image of the selected image, continuous material images occurring over a time period before and after, before, or after the selected image within said N-th image group.