Appeal No. 1999-2719
Application No. 08/637,807
produced from high resolution image data stored in a
recording medium.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention,
and it reads as follows:
1. A playback apparatus for playing back image
data stored in a recording medium which has an image
file having a plurality of high resolution image
files containing high resolution image data, at
least one index file containing more than one low
resolution image data produced from the high
resolution image data, a management file containing
management data for displaying the high resolution
image files specified by their respective low
resolution image data, and a management data table
containing location data for identifying relative
recording locations of the image file and the
management file on the recording medium based on
recording units of the recording medium, comprising:
a playback means for retrieving the image file
from the recording medium and playing back the image
data in the image file;
a display means for displaying images of the
image data played back by the playback means; and
a controller means for retrieving a single one
of the at least one index file from the recording
medium by referring to the management data in the
management file and the location data in the
management data table and controlling the playback
means so that the more than one low resolution image
data in the retrieved single index file is displayed
on the display means.
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