Patent ID: 8364027

Claim:
A moving image reproduction method for a moving image reproduction apparatus including a display control unit adapted to control a display of a moving image on a display unit, a first manipulation unit adapted to cause a forward-direction operation on the moving image, and a second manipulation unit adapted to cause a reverse-direction operation on the moving image, said method comprising: a first movement step of moving the moving image from a frame thereof currently displayed on the display unit to a subsequent frame thereof subsequent to the currently displayed frame by a predetermined number of frames in response to a manipulation on the first manipulation unit; a second movement step of moving the moving image from a frame thereof currently displayed on the display unit to a preceding frame that precedes the currently displayed frame by a predetermined number of frames in response to a manipulation on the second manipulation unit; a determination step of determining whether a current manipulation is performed on a same or different manipulation unit as or from the first or second manipulation unit manipulated at an immediately preceding manipulation; a first control step of controlling the first and second movement steps such that in a case where it is determined in said determination step that the current manipulation is performed on the same manipulation unit as that manipulated at the immediately preceding manipulation, the moving image is moved from the currently displayed frame by a same number of frames as the number of frames by which the moving image was moved at the immediately preceding manipulation, and in a case where it is determined in said determination step that the current manipulation is performed on the different manipulation unit from that manipulated at the immediately preceding manipulation, the moving image is moved from the currently displayed frame by a less number of frames than the number of frames by which the moving image was moved at the immediately preceding manipulation; a number-of-frames determination step of determining the number of frames by which the moving image was moved at the immediately preceding manipulation; and a second control step of controlling the first and second movement steps such that the moving image is moved by a fixed number of frames N in response to the current manipulation and each of a plurality of subsequent manipulations in response to the number-of-frames determination step determining that the number of frames by which the moving image was moved at the immediately preceding manipulation is equal to or less than a predetermined number of frames M, the control of the second control step having priority over the control of the first control step, wherein N is less than M.