Patent ID: 7992180

Claim:
An apparatus for displaying images comprising: a TV receiver operable to display at least one image from a recording medium; and a remote controller operable to control the TV receiver, wherein the TV receiver comprises: a media insertion unit for inserting the recording medium; a media controller for forming a display image list, based on image information from the recording medium, when detecting insertion of the recording medium into the media insertion unit. a first display-image-list storage part for storing the display image list; a first display part; and a first controller for transmitting the display image list and image data of images stored in the recording medium to the remote controller, wherein the remote controller comprises: a second display-image-list storage part for storing the display image list received from the TV receiver; and a second display part, wherein the remote controller obtains the image data of the recording medium from the TV receiver when receiving the display image list from the TV receiver, wherein the remote controller displays a plurality of images on the second display part simultaneously or sequentially, the plurality of images being from the image data that is decoded in the remote controller, wherein the remote controller transmits a command to the TV receiver, when one or more images from the plurality of images displayed on the second display part is selected, wherein the TV receiver displays the one or more images in full screen mode on the first display part when receiving the command from the remote controller, wherein the first display part and the second display part are operable to display the one or more images as a two-dimensional array of thumbnail images, in which a first axis of the two-dimensional array represents a time period, and wherein the first display part and the second display, part are prevented from displaying for a time period when no image from the time period exists in the recording medium.