Claims
- 1. An image processing apparatus comprising:
- a) reproducing means for reproducing recorded image data from a medium on which a plurality of image data are recorded;
- b) mean for supplying to a monitor the reproduced image data as a multi-screen wherein one screen of the monitor displays a plurality of smaller screens each corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of image data;
- c) means for designating at least one of the smaller screens displayed on the multi-screen; and
- d) means for erasing from the medium image data corresponding to one of the smaller screens designated by the designating means.
- 2. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:
- e) means for processing the image data recorded on the medium in accordance with a sequence of smaller screens designated by said designating means.
- 3. An apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said processing means comprises means for reproducing the image data recorded on the medium in the sequence of smaller screens designated by said designating means.
- 4. An apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said processing means comprises means for erasing the image data recorded on the medium in accordance with the sequence designated by said designating means.
- 5. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a television monitor as the monitor.
- 6. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said medium is a disc-shaped medium as the medium on which the plurality of image data are stored.
- 7. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said designating means includes:
- means for selecting a desired one of said smaller screens which is displayed by said monitor in said multi-screen; and
- a memory to store data corresponding to the screen selected by said selecting means.
- 8. An apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the data corresponding to said selected screen is an address of the medium in which the image data of the selected screen is recorded.
- 9. An image processing apparatus comprising:
- a) reproducing means for reproducing recorded image data from a medium on which a plurality of image data are recorded;
- b) means for supplying to a monitor the reproduced image data as a multi-screen in which a plurality of smaller screens are simultaneously displayed, each smaller screen corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of reproduced image data; and
- c) means for designating one of the smaller screens whose image data is to be erased from the medium.
- 10. An apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising;
- d) means for erasing from the medium the image data of the designated smaller screen designated by said designating means.
- 11. An apparatus according to claim 9. wherein said designating means includes:
- a) means for selecting a desired one of said smaller screens which is displayed on the multi-screen;
- b) means for indicating that the selected screen is to be erased; and
- c) a memory for storing data corresponding to the screen indicated by said indicating means.
- 12. An apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising a television monitor as the monitor.
- 13. An apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said medium is a disc-shaped medium.
- 14. A reproducing apparatus for reproducing recorded image data from a medium on which the image data of a plurality of n screens are recorded, comprising:
- a) means for outputting a plurality of multi-screens of image data, each multi-screen comprising a number n/m of the recorded screens, where n and m are integers and 1 <m<n; and
- means for providing the multi-screens to a monitor.
- 15. An apparatus according to claim 14, wherein said n=50.
- 16. An apparatus according to claim 15, wherein said medium is a still video disc-shaped medium.
- 17. An apparatus according to claim 15, wherein said outputting means arranges the image data of 25 screens into a matrix form of 5.times.5 and supplies a 5.times.5 multi-screen to the monitor.
- 18. An apparatus according to claim 14, wherein said outputting means includes:
- a) a memory for storing the image data of one multi-screen;
- b) means for writing the image data of the one multi-screen into said memory; and
- c) means for reading out the image data of the multi-screen from said memory, and for supplying the read out image data to the monitor.
- 19. An apparatus for reproducing a plurality of images recorded on a recording medium, comprising:
- a) means for displaying the plurality of images recorded on said recording medium as a multi-screen of n.times.m smaller screens, each smaller screen corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of recorded images, where n and m are integers;
- b) selecting means comprising (n.times.m) selecting switches, each switch corresponding to one of said smaller screens, for selecting one of the smaller screens; and
- c) reproducing means for reproducing the image corresponding to the smaller screen selected by said selecting means.
- 20. A reproducing apparatus according to claim 19, wherein (n.times.m) is 5.times.5.
- 21. An image processing apparatus comprising:
- a) reproducing means for reproducing recorded image data from a medium on which a plurality of image data are recorded;
- b) means for supplying to a monitor the reproduced image data as a multi-screen in which a plurality of smaller screens are simultaneously displayed, each smaller screen corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of reproduced image data; and
- c) means for designating one of the smaller screens whose image data is not to be further reproduced from the medium.
- 22. An apparatus according to claim 21, further comprising:
- d) means for erasing from the medium the image data of the designated smaller screen designated by said designating means.
- 23. An apparatus according to claim 21, wherein said designating means includes:
- means for selecting a desired one of said smaller screens which is displayed on the multi-screen;
- means for indicating that the selected screen is to be erased; and
- a memory for storing data corresponding to the screen indicated by said indicating means.
- 24. An apparatus according to claim 21, further comprising a television monitor as the monitor.
- 25. An apparatus according to claim 21, wherein said medium is a disc-shaped medium as the medium.
Priority Claims (5)
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| 62-200670 |
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| 62-201556 |
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| 62-201557 |
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| 62-221150 |
Sep 1987 |
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| 62-221151 |
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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This application is a continuation of prior application Ser. No. 07/230,042, filed Aug. 9, 1988, now abandoned.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and, more particularly, to an image processing apparatus which is able to reproduce image information from a medium.
2. Related Background Art
Hitherto, in a still video recording/reproducing system, to search for a desired image from among a plurality of images recorded on a magnetic sheet, it is necessary to perform a procedure such that the recorded image on each track was reproduced and displayed while forwardly feeding a reproducing head by one track, so that it takes a long time. On the other hand, there has also been proposed a searching system such that the reproducing head are forcibly moved to the track of a desired track number and the recorded image on this track was reproduced and displayed. However, in this case, it was necessary to provide means for recording or storing the corresponding relation between the track number and the image recorded on this track, so that the structure of the apparatus was complicated and expensive.
In consideration of the foregoing drawbacks in the conventional apparatus, it is a first object of the present invention to provide an image processing apparatus which can promptly process desired image information from a medium on which a plurality of image information are recorded.
Under such an object, the invention intends to provide an image processing apparatus which can promptly reproduce desired image information from a medium on which a plurality of image information are recorded.
Under the first object, the invention intends to provide an image processing apparatus which can promptly erase desired image information from a medium on which a plurality of image information are recorded.
According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, there is provided a reproducing apparatus for reproducing a recorded image from a recording medium on which image information are recorded, this apparatus comprises: supplying means for simultaneously supplying to a monitor a plurality of images recorded on the recording medium; setting means for setting a program of a procedure to reproduce a plurality of images in a state in which a plurality of images are reproduced by the supplying means; and means for displaying the setting state of the setting means, wherein the plurality of recorded images on the recording medium can be simultaneously confirmed (or confirmed in a small number of steps such as two or three) by the supplying means, and the recorded image to be observed can be easily found. In addition, the program reproducing order can be visually confirmed by the setting means and display means, so that the reproducing order of a plurality of images can be easily set in a short time.
Another object of the invention is to provide a reproducing apparatus which can simultaneously and visually observe a plurality of images when reproducing image information recorded on a medium.
The above and other objects and features of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description and the appended claims with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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Patent Grant
5050003
