Patent ID: 7231129

Claim:
An information reproduction apparatus comprising: a reading device which reads image information recorded in an information storage medium; a decoding device which decodes the image information read by the reading device; a storage device which holds the decoded image information decoded by the decoding device so that the decoded image information can be read therefrom and written therein repeatedly; an output controlling device which sequentially reads out and outputs the decoded image information in order of precedence at the time of writing the decoded image information while writing the decoded image information in a predetermined region of the storage device; a designating device which designates a repetitive reproduction start position indicating a start position of repetitive reproduction; a repetitive reproduction controlling device which controls a repetitive reproduction processing; a repetitive start instructing device which instructs the repetitive reproduction controlling device to begin to perform the repetitive reproduction processing; and a repetition reproduction range setting device which sets a repetition reproduction range that would include the decoded image information to be reproduced at one repetition reproduction and instructs the output controlling device to maintain the decoded image information in the repetition reproduction range, when the repetitive reproduction start position is designated by the designating device, wherein the repetitive reproduction controlling device instructs the output controlling device to output the decoded image information in the repetition reproduction range and to acquire the decoded image information subsequent to the repetition reproduction range, when the repetitive reproduction controlling device is instructed to begin to perform the repetitive reproduction processing by the repetitive reproduction start instructing device, wherein the output controlling device maintains the decoded image information in the repetition reproduction range in the storage device even when the decoded image information in the repetition reproduction range has been outputted.