Patent ID: 7050700

Claim:
A picture compression managing apparatus comprising: a picture compression processor for compressing a moving picture, said moving picture comprising a plurality of frames, said picture compression processor comprising: an interface section for receiving an index affix request, said index affix request being a request to affix an index to a frame of said plurality of frames, said frame being compressed by said picture compression processor into a compressed frame to be stored in a file in a recording medium; an index producing section for producing, in response to said index affix request, a marking position that is a position in said file at which said compressed frame is stored with respect to a leading position of said file, said index producing section carrying out storage of said marking position as a particular index into said recording medium; and a frame memorizing section, said frame memorizing section being configured to store, if said frame is compressed by said picture compression processor into said compressed frame using one or more reference frames of said plurality of frames, said one or more reference frames in decompressed form into said recording medium.