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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 1993
Filed:
Dec. 06, 1990
Mari Kimura, Kishiwada, JP;
Misao Kato, Katano, JP;
Yoshinori Amano, Takatsuki, JP;
Yoshio Hirauchi, Osaka, JP;
Kunihiko Hontani, Settsu, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Kadoma, JP;
Abstract
A picture file system including a recording medium having a picture zone and a reduced picture zone divided therein. In a picture recording mode, a full-size picture data is recorded in the picture zone and a reduced picture of a predetermined data size corresponding to the full-size picture is recorded at a predetermined address in the reduced picture zone. In a picture retrieval mode, a plurality of the reduced pictures of the predetermined data size recorded at their predetermined addresses in the reduced picture zone are sequentially reproduced and displayed at the same time.