Patent ID: 8032010

Claim:
An image recording/reproducing apparatus which records and reproduces a plurality of still image files and sound files with respect to a recording medium and provides a display apparatus with a screen of play list indicating sound files being currently reproduced, the recording/reproducing apparatus comprising: a decoder for decoding the still image files and the sound files recorded in the recording medium; a memory for storing the still image files and the sound files as decoded; and a main control unit for performing a process operation such that, a display menu is displayed in a first predetermined area of the screen of play list, wherein the display menu comprises at least one instruction icon to both set a reproduction mode and command a reproduction of an alternating display such that the plurality of still image files recorded in the recording medium are alternately and automatically displayed, and when the instruction icon of the display menu is selected during the reproducing of the sound files stored in the memory, the plurality of still image files recorded in the same folder as the sound files in the recording medium are decoded and stored in the memory while the decoder is idle, and one or more files among the stored still image files are alternately displayed on a second predetermined area of the screen of play list indicating sound files as commanded by the selection of the instruction icon.