Method and apparatus for recording images, method and apparatus for recording and reproducing images, and television receiver utilizing the same

摘要

An MPEG encoder performs, in compliance with the MPEG-2 standard, intra-image coding compression on thumbnail images, selected by an image selector, whose data amount has been reduced by a data reducing unit. The thus compressed thumbnail images together with a record address recorded as coded data in a coded image data area is recorded in a thumbnail image data.