Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Sharp Kabushiki Kaishi

Syuzou Nishida

Yukihiko Haikawa

Hidenori Minoda

Kousou Hayashi

Ichiro Nakata

A TOC region is provided on a DAT tape. In the TOC region reduced still image data is recorded as one still image and is obtained by reducing each still picture data recorded in each of a plurality of still picture/audio composite data regions provided subsequently to the TOC region. A first address of each still picture/audio composite data is also recorded in the TOC region. At the time of reproduction, the TOC region is reproduced and the still image based on the reduced still image data is shown on a display. When an operator selects a specific still image among the plurality of displayed still pictures, the corresponding still picture/audio composite data is reproduced based on an address corresponding to the selected still picture.

Image recording/reproducing apparatus which displays images to be

A magnetic tape recording/reproducing apparatus wherein an area consisting of a predetermined number of successive tracks on a magnetic tape constitutes a unit record area, the unit record area being partitioned into at least two divisional record areas each consisting of successive tracks so that plural systems of data are allocated to the divisional record areas for being separately recorded therein for individual systems, wherein together with first identification data indicative of the order of track arrangement and second identification data for identifying the divisional record area in which the track is included are recorded, as third identification data, first identification data for a track located at the beginning of the divisional record area in which the track is included. According to the arrangement, the third identification data (=first identification data) indicative of the beginning position of the record area to be searched can be recognized in the course of high speed retrieval operation and, therefore, easy access to the beginning position of the record area to be search can be gained in short time through usual reproducing operation.

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Higashihiroshima, Japan

Syuzou Nishida