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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2004
Filed:
May. 17, 1995
Tadashi Fujii, Asaka, JP;
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus and method in which image data stored in storage media of a plurality of different types or output by image signal generating sources of a plurality of different types can be reproduced simultaneously on the same monitor screen. Original image data provided by storage media or image signal generating sources of a plurality of types is converted to reduced image data representing pictures of reduced size. The original image data or the reduced image data is stored in a display memory in an arrangement capable of constructing a split-screen display. A plurality of frames of (reduced) image data read out of different storage media, etc. are stored in the display memory. These items of image data from the display memory are converted to image signals suitable for being displayed, and the image signals are applied to a monitor display unit. As a result, images of a plurality of frames represented by image data provided by storage media or image signal generating sources of a plurality of different types are displayed on one screen simultaneously.