Patent ID: 7627232

Claim:
A reproduction apparatus for successively decoding and reproducing a plurality of picture data, comprising: a receiver for receiving a reversal command; and a decoder for successively decoding said plurality of picture data in an order in accordance with a designated reproduction direction, writing the decoding results in a reproduction memory, and reproducing and outputting said decoding results read from said reproduction memory, wherein said decoder holds the storage of said decoding results in said reproduction memory even after said decoding results stored in said reproduction memory are no longer used when continuing reproduction in said designated reproduction direction and, when said receiver receives the reversal command of said reproduction direction, performs said reproduction and output using said decoding results stored in said reproduction memory before the receipt of said reversal command, said reproduction apparatus defines picture property data indicating whether to decode said picture data for each of said picture data, and said decoder determines whether to decode said picture data corresponding to said picture property based on said picture property data.