JP3099239B2 - Reproduction apparatus and method - Google Patents

Description

Description: BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a playback apparatus and method, and more particularly, to a playback apparatus and method for multi-playing an image.

2. Description of the Related Art A reproducing apparatus for reproducing a still image recorded on a still image recording medium such as a still video floppy disk, in which a monitor screen is divided into a plurality of screens and individual reproduced images are displayed on each small screen. A so-called multi-reproduction is known.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, in the conventional reproducing apparatus, at the time of multi-reproduction, the ID information of the reproduced image is not displayed at all. The ID information includes the shooting date and the like. Therefore, in order to confirm the shooting date and time, it is necessary to perform normal playback in which each recorded image is played back and displayed on the entire screen.

Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a reproducing apparatus and method capable of easily confirming identification information of a desired reproduced image in multi-reproduction.

[Means for Solving the Problems] A reproducing apparatus according to the present invention comprises: a capturing unit that captures a plurality of images and identification information of the plurality of images from a storage medium; and the plurality of images that the capturing unit captures. Storage means for storing the identification information; display control means for controlling the plurality of images stored in the storage means to be divided and displayed on one screen of a display device; and displaying identification information among the plurality of images. Instruction means for instructing an image to be read, and identification information of an image designated by the instruction means is read from the storage means, and identification information of an image other than the image designated by the instruction means is displayed among the plurality of images. Without letting me
Control means for controlling the display device to display the identification information of the image designated by the designation means.

A reproducing method according to the present invention includes a capturing step of capturing image information from a storage medium storing a plurality of images and identification information of the plurality of images; and a storing step of storing the plurality of images captured in the capturing step. A display control step of controlling the plurality of images stored in the storage step to be divided and displayed on one screen of a display device; and an instruction step of instructing an image to display identification information among the plurality of images. Controlling the display device to display the identification information of the image specified by the instruction step without displaying the identification information of the image other than the image specified by the instruction step among the plurality of images. And a step.

Embodiment An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.
10 is a still video floppy as a recording medium, 12 is a motor for rotating the floppy 10, 14 is a magnetic head for reproduction, 16 is a step motor for sending the magnetic head 14 in the radial direction of the floppy 10, and 18 is A drive circuit for driving the motor 12 and the stepping motor 16, a reproducing circuit 20 for reproducing the output of the magnetic head 14, a system control circuit 22 for controlling the whole, and 24 according to a character code signal from the system control circuit 22 Character that generates a character pattern signal
A generator (CG) 26 is a memory for storing ID information reproduced from a track being multi-reproduced.

Reference numeral 28 denotes an instruction device for moving a pointer on a monitor screen, and in this embodiment, is used as means for instructing a track on which an ID is to be displayed. Numeral 30 indicates which of the multi-reproduced tracks has the largest or smallest track number, the oldest or newest photographing date (recording date and time), or the track indicated by the indicating device 28. This is a switching device for specifying whether to display an ID. 32 is a monitor device.

FIG. 2 shows an operation panel surface of the pointing device 28, and FIG. 3 shows a monitor screen of the monitor device 32, which illustrates a case of nine divisions. An arrow pointer on the monitor screen
34 is displayed, and the movement keys 36, 38, 40, 42 of the pointing device are displayed.
The pointers 34 on the monitor screen move up,
The screen moves to the lower, left and right small screens.
Such an interlocking control relationship between the movement keys 36 to 42 and the pointer 34 is well known and does not directly relate to the present invention, so that detailed description is omitted.

FIG. 4 shows an operation flowchart of this embodiment. 4th
The operation of this embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings. If the reproduction is not the multi-reproduction (S1), the normal reproduction process for displaying one reproduction image on the entire screen is performed (S2). In the case of multi-playback (S1), nine screens from the current track are fetched into the image memory in the playback circuit 20 and displayed on the monitor device 32 in multi-view (S3). At the same time, the ID information of the nine screens to be multi-displayed is stored in the memory 26 (S4). Then, in accordance with the switching device 30 and the instruction device 28, the ID information of the corresponding reproduced image is read from the memory 26 and displayed on the monitor screen by the CG 24.

That is, the minimum track number (S5) by the switching device 30,
For the selection of the maximum track number (S6), the oldest recording date (S7), and the latest recording date (S8), the ID of the track with the minimum track number (S9) and the maximum track in the displayed image, respectively. The ID of the track with the number (S10), the ID of the track with the oldest recording date (S11), and the ID of the track with the latest recording date (S12) are read from the memory 26. S5-8
If none of the above is selected, the ID of the image specified by the pointing device 28 is read from the memory 26. The ID information read from the memory 26 in this manner is supplied to the CG 24 via the system control circuit 22, and the corresponding character pattern signal is output from the CG 24 and displayed on the monitor device 32. That is, in the displayed image, the ID of the track with the smallest track number (S9) and the ID of the track with the largest track number (S1
0), the ID of the track with the oldest recording date (S11), the ID of the track with the latest recording date (S12), and the ID of the image specified by the indicating device 28 (S13) are displayed on the monitor device 32. You.

As for the recording date, the ID information stored in the memory 26 is sorted with respect to the recording date, and the image with the oldest or latest recording date is searched.

After the ID is displayed, the process returns to S5 if the reproduction is still the multi reproduction, and returns to S1 if the reproduction is not the multi reproduction.

In the above embodiment, a desired image is selected from a plurality of images displayed in the multi-image mode and the ID of the image is displayed. However, the present invention is not limited to this. May be superimposed on the ID. In short, it is only necessary to know the ID of each image in the state where the multi-image is reproduced.

[Effects of the Invention] As can be easily understood from the above description, according to the present invention, it is possible to know the identification information of an arbitrary multi-reproduced image by a simple operation. In particular, when the display screen is small, or when there is a large amount of identification information to be displayed in comparison with the size of the display screen, a selection instruction is given rather than displaying the identification information of all multi-play images. It is easier to confirm the identification information by displaying the identification information of the selected and instructed image without displaying the identification information of the missing image.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram of an operation panel of the pointing device 28, FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a monitor screen, and FIG. It is a flowchart. 10: Still video floppy, 12: Motor, 14: Magnetic head, 16: Step motor, 18: Drive circuit, 20: Playback circuit, 22: System control circuit, 24: Character generator, 26: Memory, 28 : Pointing device, 30: Switching device, 32: Monitor device

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A capturing means for capturing a plurality of images and identification information of the plurality of images from a storage medium; a storage means for storing the plurality of images and the identification information captured by the capturing means; Display control means for controlling the plurality of images stored by the means to be divided and displayed on one screen of a display device; instruction means for instructing an image for displaying identification information among the plurality of images; and the instruction means The identification information of the image designated by the instruction unit is read from the storage unit, and the image designated by the instruction unit is displayed without displaying the identification information of the image other than the image designated by the instruction unit among the plurality of images. Control means for controlling the display device to display the identification information of the reproduction device. 2. A capturing step of capturing image information from a storage medium storing a plurality of images and identification information of the plurality of images; a storing step of storing the plurality of images captured in the capturing step; A display control step of controlling the plurality of images stored in the storage step to be divided and displayed on one screen of a display device; an instruction step of instructing an image to display identification information among the plurality of images; Controlling the display device to display the identification information of the image specified by the instruction step on the display device without displaying the identification information of the image other than the image specified by the instruction step among the images. A reproducing method characterized by having: