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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 29, 1997
Toshiya Mori, Settsu, JP;
Naoya Takao, Kadoma, JP;
Tatsuya Shimoji, Neyagawa, JP;
Kazuo Okamura, Hirakata, JP;
Junichi Hirai, Suita, JP;
Masahiro Oashi, Hirakata, JP;
Takashi Kakiuchi, Toyonaka, JP;
Yuki Kusumi, Kashiba, JP;
Yoshiyuki Miyabe, Osaka, JP;
Ikuo Minakata, Souraku-gun, JP;
Masayuki Kozuka, Neyagawa, JP;
Yoshihiro Mimura, Hirakata, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka-fu, JP;
Abstract
A terminal apparatus is provided for displaying an image by reproducing a piece of image information and for interactively changing the image using navigation information. The image is a moving picture, a still picture, or a mixture of them. The image information and the navigation information together are broadcast by a broadcasting station to the terminal apparatus. The navigation information indicates a plurality pieces of link-target image information. The cache unit stores a pair of image information and navigation information. The reproducing unit reproduces the image information. The monitoring unit monitors whether an operator has performed a certain operation responding to the image displayed. The receiving unit, before the operator performs the certain operation, receives a plurality pieces of image information which have possibility of being displayed and a plurality pieces of corresponding navigation information based on the navigation information, and stores the plurality pieces of image information and navigation information in the cache unit. The specifying unit specifies a piece of link-target image information based on the certain operation. The identifying unit identifies the piece of link-target image information as a piece of image information.