Patent ID: 7532802

Claim:
An image reproduction apparatus comprising: a plurality of image storage devices; an image display device; and an image reproduction device coupled between the image storage devices and the image display device to sequentially reproduce serial image data sets obtained from the image storage devices on the image display device; said image reproduction device comprising: input means connected with said plurality of image storage devices for inputting serial image data sets from the image storage devices; reading means for reading the serial image data sets from one of the image storage devices; boundary detection means for finding a boundary of the serial image data sets read from the image storage device by the reading means; storage device search means for searching the image storage devices for the image storage device that stores serial image data sets to be continued from the boundary of the serial image data sets found by the boundary detection means; switching means for switching the image storage device read by the reading means to the image storage device searched for by the storage device search means when the boundary of the serial image data sets is detected by the boundary detection means; and reproduction means for enabling sequential reproduction of the serial image data sets read by the reading means on said image display device.