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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 03, 1997
Makoto Kawamura, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasushi Fujinami, Kanagawa, JP;
Jun Yonemitsu, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomihiro Nakagawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Encoded data is reversely reproduced by decoding each picture only once and using only as many frame memory sections as are needed in a normal playback operation. A picture header detector detects a picture header from data read out from a video code buffer to identify the type of picture The picture type information controls a picture data selecting circuit for selecting frames of I and P pictures equal in number to the number of frame memory sections in a frame memory bank. The selected frames are supplied to an inverse VLC circuit to be decoded, starting at the head of a GOP with an I picture. The decoded I and P pictures are stored in the frame memory bank and transmitted to a display unit, starting with the temporally most recent picture and reading backward.