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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2005
Makoto Yamada, Tokyo, JP;
Hideo Obata, Kanagawa, JP;
Eiji Tadokoro, Chiba, JP;
Manabu Ukai, Tokyo, JP;
Takayuki Sato, Kanagawa, JP;
Seigo Fukushima, Kanagawa, JP;
Kenichi Okamura, Tokyo, JP;
Makoto Yamada, Tokyo, JP;
Hideo Obata, Kanagawa, JP;
Eiji Tadokoro, Chiba, JP;
Manabu Ukai, Tokyo, JP;
Takayuki Sato, Kanagawa, JP;
Seigo Fukushima, Kanagawa, JP;
Kenichi Okamura, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a recording apparatus and a method, a playback apparatus and a method, a recording medium, and a program capable of quickly playing back a picture associated with a unit in which a moving image is encoded. An extraction sectionextracts one picture from each GOP. A number-of-pixels conversion sectionreduces the amount of information of the extracted picture by thinning out pixels. A static-image compression sectionencodes the picture whose amount of information has been reduced by a JPEG technique. A microcomputerassociates the encoded picture with the GOP from which the picture has been extracted and controls recording of the picture associated with the GOP onto a diskon which the moving image is to be recorded. The present invention can be applied to a recording apparatus for recording a moving image onto a data recording medium.