Camera apparatus with magnified playback features

Abstract

An embodiment of a camera apparatus includes transferring a compressed playback streaming signal output from a recording medium to a map defined in a memory circuit, decoding the transferred playback streaming signal by a decoder, converting the decoded signal to a YUV signal in an image processing unit, transferring the converted signal to the map as a YUV signal, generating a magnified or reduced image from the YUV signal in the image processing unit, and storing the image on the map, overlaying a magnified or reduced image prepared on the map according to a magnified playback request, and outputting the overlaid image for seeking an output position.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . An image reproducing method comprising:
 reproducing a first moving image; and   reproducing a second moving image obtained by magnifying a part of the first moving image in accordance with a magnification instruction.   
     
     
         2 . The image reproducing method of  claim 1 , wherein the magnification instruction is a magnification operation input signal. 
     
     
         3 . The image reproducing method of  claim 2 , further comprising superimposing the second moving image on a third moving image corresponding to the first moving image. 
     
     
         4 . The image reproducing method of  claim 3 , wherein the third moving image includes a reduced whole image of the first moving image. 
     
     
         5 . The image reproducing method of  claim 1 , further comprising superimposing the second moving image on a third moving image corresponding to the first moving image. 
     
     
         6 . The image reproducing method of  claim 5 , wherein the third moving image includes a reduced whole image of the first moving image. 
     
     
         7 . The image reproducing method of  claim 2 , further comprising reproducing a magnify position mark indicating a position of a magnified area in the first moving image, the magnified area in the first moving image is the second moving image. 
     
     
         8 . The image reproducing method of  claim 7 , wherein the magnify position mark is reproduced with the third moving image. 
     
     
         9 . The image reproducing method of  claim 5 , further comprising reproducing a magnify position mark indicating a position of a magnified area in the first moving image, the magnified area in the first moving image is the second moving image. 
     
     
         10 . The image reproducing method of  claim 9 , wherein the magnify position mark is reproduced with the third moving image. 
     
     
         11 . The image reproducing method of  claim 7 , further comprising moving an area to be magnified in the first moving image by a move operation input signal.