Digital photograph presentation using DVD players

Details Digital photograph presentation using DVD players Digital photograph presentation using DVD players

2007-05-29

2007-05-29

Tran, Thai Q. (Department: 2621)

Motion video signal processing for recording or reproducing

Local trick play processing

With randomly accessible medium

C386S349000

Reexamination Certificate

active

10074734

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 (402), transcoding (500) 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 (400or410) that includes a transcoder (404or412) for converting in real-time (see500) still-picture files to sequences of frames, a navigator (406) for selecting the still-picture files and for controlling the transcoder (404or412) to direct presentation of the sequences. A method for digital photograph presentation in accordance with another embodiment includes encoding (300) onto a DVD disc (202) MPEG2 sequences that include the digital photographs as I-picture frames, inserting the DVD disc into a DVD player (200), and navigating amongst the MPEG2 sequences and displaying selected photographs using the DVD player (200). An apparatus for digital photograph presentation in accordance with another embodiment is a DVD player (400or410) that includes a navigator (204) for selecting the digital photographs encoded as MPEG2 sequences on a DVD disk (202), an MPEG2 decoder (104) for receiving and decoding the MPEG2 sequences, and a frame buffer (106) for buffering the decoded MPEG2 sequences to be output as at least one video signal from the DVD player.

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