Patent Document ID: 7825939
Application ID: 11347418
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An image reproducing method comprising: a reading out step of reading out a jump constant which is a predetermined value in jump reproduction of an image from a memory medium, the jump constant being an integer equal to 2 or greater than 2; a calculating step of calculating a number of images to be jumped in the jump reproduction based on a quotient obtained by dividing a number of images within a predetermined range recorded on a recording medium by the jump constant read out in the reading out step irrespective of a location of a currently reproduced image; an instructing step of instructing the jump reproduction; and a reproduction controlling step of controlling an image reproduction such that at every one instruction by the instructing step, an image distant from the currently reproduced image by the number of images to be jumped calculated in the calculating step is reproduced from among a plurality of images recorded on the recording medium and arranged in a specific order, wherein when the instruction by the instructing step is to jump forward in the specific order and when the currently reproduced image is an image within the predetermined range and a number of images from the currently reproduced image to a last image among the images within the predetermined range in the specific order is less than the number of images to be jumped calculated in the calculating step, the image reproduction is controlled in the reproduction controlling step such that an image which is distant forward in the specific order from a first image among the images within the predetermined range by a number of images corresponding to a difference between the number of images from the currently reproduced image to the last image and the number of images to be jumped calculated in the calculating step, is reproduced.