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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2002
Mehrban Jam, Fremont, CA (US);
BO Shen, Fremont, CA (US);
Mehrban Jam, Fremont, CA (US);
Bo Shen, Fremont, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus for digital photograph presentation. A method for digital photograph presentation in accordance with one embodiment includes reading a still-picture file for a selected photograph from a DVD disk (), transcoding () data from the still-picture file into a sequence of frames, and decoding and presenting the sequence. An apparatus for digital photograph presentation in accordance with one embodiment is a DVD player device (or) that includes a transcoder (or) for converting in real-time (see) still-picture files to sequences of frames, a navigator () for selecting the still-picture files and for controlling the transcoder (or) to direct presentation of the sequences. A method for digital photograph presentation in accordance with another embodiment includes encoding () onto a DVD disc () MPEG2 sequences that include the digital photographs as I-picture frames, inserting the DVD disc into a DVD player (), and navigating amongst the MPEG2 sequences and displaying selected photographs using the DVD player (). An apparatus for digital photograph presentation in accordance with another embodiment is a DVD player (or) that includes a navigator () for selecting the digital photographs encoded as MPEG2 sequences on a DVD disk (), an MPEG2 decoder () for receiving and decoding the MPEG2 sequences, and a frame buffer () for buffering the decoded MPEG2 sequences to be output as at least one video signal from the DVD player.