System for displaying a plurality of pictures and apparatuses incorporating the same
CA 2250445 C · Owner: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. · Inventors: Kato, Tsuyoshi; Kageyu, Satoshi; Matsuura, Shun
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A method and system for displaying a plurality of specified ones of pictures in an array of windows provided on a display screen of a computer based system. The size of moving and/or still pictures is reduced into sizereduced pictures with a size of the frames. The size-reduced pictures are coded into coded size-reduced pictures and stored in a hard disc. In response to a predetermined signal and a list of pictures to be displayed a display frame is, compiled from the coded size-reduced pictures specified by said list. The compiled frame is decoded and displayed.
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- Filed November 3, 1998 and granted January 7, 2003. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 3, 2018.
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