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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7869692 | Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit, a recording and reproduction unit configured to record a serial moving image signal generated by the imaging unit as one cut on a recording medium during a period from an instruction to start photographing to an instruc... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7822321 | Image pickup device and reproduction control method An image pickup device includes an image pickup including an image pickup lens system and an image pickup element operable to obtain a pickup image; a recording device operable to record image data based on the pickup image to a predetermined recording medium; a rep... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7817905 | Video camera and remote recording system A system for recording audio and video comprises at least one video camera device (100), each camera device comprising a subsystem for capturing (112) at least video data, a storage device (107) upon which at least the video data is stored, a wi... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7756400 | Optically writing image data files and thumbnail images corresponding thereto to optical disc A method of an embodiment of the invention optically writes a plurality of image data files on an optically writable data side of an optical disc. The method optically marks a plurality of thumbnail images on an optically writable label side of the optical disc. Eac... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7702219 | Audio and/or video generation apparatus and method of generating audio and/or video signals An audio and/or video generation apparatus comprises a recording processor which is operable to record audio and/or video signals on a recording medium, a meta data generation processor which is operable to generate meta data identifying the content of the audio/vid... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7693401 | Recording apparatus using disc-like recording medium A recording/reproducing apparatus for recording as a QuickTime file a photographed motion image on a disc-like recording medium having plural recording areas different in characteristic. The plural areas include a first area guaranteeing a quick access speed and a s... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7684679 | Image recording apparatus An image recording apparatus includes a JPEG CODEC that produces JPEG data by compressing image data. Markers SOI and EOI are embedded in produced JPEG data, and such the JPEG data is recorded into a magnetooptical disk by a disk drive. Upon completion of recording ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7639925 | File management system of image data In a system for file managing image data of an electronic camera, so long as the image data is recorded by the same image pickup apparatus, a peculiar file name which is not overlapped is generated and in order to prevent that a plurality of files of the same name e... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7606470 | Image pickup apparatus having moving picture photographing function and moving picture photographing method thereof An image pickup apparatus operating in a moving picture photographing mode, wherein, before a start of moving picture photographing is indicated by a shutter button on a key input section, a clock frequency of a control section is made to be a normal frequency so th... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7587132 | Digital video recorder to be connected to a digital video camcorder via IEEE 1394 serial bus A digital video recorder connected to a DV camcorder sends, to the camcorder upon detecting camcorder mode change from a reproduction mode to a rewind mode, a stop command to forward a DV tape toward its end until a newest time code coincides with a time code at a r... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7577338 | Disc recording and/or reproducing apparatus having a case with a partition wall for forming two chambers A partition wall composed of a conductor for partitioning the inside of a case into two portions in which approximately all of at least one face of the partition, wall is covered by an insulation plate. A table rotation device and an optical pickup device are dispos... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7551841 | Video camera The present invention provides a video camera which ensures that the user will recognize recording mode, thereby preventing the user from confusing a target recording medium. For that, the video camera 100 has a character information composition unit 3... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7474839 | Digital camera and printing system With a digital camera 100, a photographed image 31 is displayed on a liquid crystal display and the user selects a desired image and specifies print specifications of the number of print sheets, a print paper size, a print color mode, etc., then print ... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7457528 | Recording/reproducing apparatus A recording/reproducing apparatus has a network mode for transmitting and receiving image data through a network and a normal mode for recording and reproducing image data without connecting to a network. In a mode capable of switching between the network mode and t... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7457527 | Portable data transfer and mass storage device for removable memory modules A hand-held battery powered device for transferring data between one or more flash memory modules and a mass storage device. The device includes one or more slots to accept a flash memory module into a housing which includes fixed or removable mass storage device an... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7450823 | Hard disk recorder and video record apparatus To photograph with a digital video camera, a still image is photographed and is inserted at the point to set a chapter. To dub a photographed video from a camera to a hard disk recorder, compression processing of the video data is performed at a variable bit rate by... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7450825 | Digital camera and printing system With a digital camera 100, a photographed image 31 is displayed on a liquid crystal display and the user selects a desired image and specifies print specifications of the number of print sheets, a print paper size, a print color mode, etc., then print ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7450824 | Digital camera and printing system With a digital camera 100, a photographed image 31 is displayed on a liquid crystal display and the user selects a desired image and specifies print specifications of the number of print sheets, a print paper size, a print color mode, etc., then print ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7444068 | System and method of manual indexing of image data The invention relates to a method of indexing image data comprising the steps of acquiring image data representing a series of images, acquiring manually provided user cues for designating ones of the images, and indexing the image data in association with the manua... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7428381 | Electronic motion picture camera The invention relates to an electronic motion picture camera having an optical receiving system and a beam splitter which splits the receiving beam path into a taking beam path leading to an optoelectronic taking sensor and a viewfinder beam path leading to an optic... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7424207 | Digital camera A digital camera includes a signal processing circuit. The signal processing circuit makes signal processing on the camera data read from a camera data area of an SDRAM to produce YUV data for record. A thin-out circuit makes a thin-out processing on the recording Y... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7424208 | Portable download unit including a memory chip-to-CD burner In an embodiment, a portable download device may include a card port for receiving a memory card from a digital camera and a compact disc (CD) reader/writer unit to write digital image data from the memory chip in the card to a removable CD and then reset the memory... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7424200 | Information recording apparatus and information recording method In an information recording apparatus, for conducting finalizing process on a removable recording medium with certainty, on which information is recorded in an easy format contained within a portable equipment in real-time manner, wherein the finalizing process is e... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7418196 | Video signal recording apparatus A recording time acquiring device is provided to acquire the recording time of the video signal recorded on the digital videotape on the basis of signals outputted from the digital video camera when the digital videotape is fast-forwarded from a leading position to ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7409144 | Video and audio information processing A camera-recorder apparatus comprises an image capture device operable to capture a plurality of video images; a storage medium by which the video images are stored for later retrieval; a feature extraction unit operable to derive image property data from the image ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406248 | Digital image retrieval and storage The present invention relates to the retrieval and storage of image data captured using a digital image acquisition device such as a still camera, a video camera or a scanning device, and of image data stored on removable storage media such as compact flash, smart a... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7406253 | Picked up image recording system, signal recording device, and signal recording method When a recording start executed in a variable-speed recording mode, at ST44 a signal having a variable frame rate is selected on the basis of a validity signal from among image signals having a predetermined output frame rate in which the images having the va... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7406254 | Information signal processing apparatus An information signal processing apparatus according to the present invention is arranged to receive, as an input, an information signal to temporarily store therein the input information signal and to temporarily store therein management information prepared during... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7400818 | Recording apparatus having a pause mode in which video signals are written to memory by cyclically designating write addresses A recording apparatus reads and stores video signals on a recording medium. The recording apparatus has a recording mode and a recording pause mode. In the recording mode, the video signals are stored in a memory, and the video signals read from the memory are recor... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7389034 | Data entry via on-screen display A recording playback device having a database of recordings with titles, automatically enters a title input mode upon receiving character input from a user while a recording is being played if the there is not title in the database for the recording. Playback of the... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7379660 | Digital camera and printing system With a digital camera 100, a photographed image 31 is displayed on a liquid crystal display and the user selects a desired image and specifies print specifications of the number of print sheets, a print paper size, a print color mode, etc., then print ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7372486 | Photographing apparatus and method of adjusting an image of a photographing object A photographing object image adjusting apparatus including a plurality of adjusting operation devices corresponding to a plurality of object image adjusting modes, respectively, and an object image adjusting device. Each of the plurality of adjusting operation devic... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369161 | Digital camera device providing improved methodology for rapidly taking successive pictures An in-camera two-stage compression implementation is described that reduces the latency between snapshots to a fraction of that otherwise required by other systems that either process complete compression following each snapshot or that incorporate heavy, bulky, and... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369744 | Signal receiving apparatus and signal recording method A signal receiving apparatus includes a tuner (102) for selecting a broadcasting station or a program, which becomes a reception subject, a program recording/playing circuit (202) for recording a received signal of the reception subject, and a control ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365505 | Image forming apparatus using noise-resistant motor control device An apparatus for controlling a rotational motion of a motor is disclosed which includes: a signal generator generating a rotational state signal indicative of a rotational state of the motor; and a controller producing a control signal for controlling the rotational... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366404 | Image pickup apparatus The image pickup apparatus has a camera which encodes object image data, further comprises a recording unit 101 for recording image data, a connector 200 for connecting the camera with an expansion card 111 including a signal processor 701 | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366406 | Video-recording system, meta-data addition apparatus, imaging apparatus, video-signal recording apparatus, video-recording method, and meta-data format In order to present a video-recording system capable of managing a video material and meta data related to the video material in an integrated manner by directly linking the meta data to the video material, the video-recording system is provided with a meta data add... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366360 | Image synthesization method An image synthesization method, whereby a plurality of images, each of which has a partially overlapping image area, are synthesized to create a single synthetic image, comprises a determination step of inputting a plurality of image data sets that correspond to the... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362962 | Information-recording apparatus, information-recording method, information-reproducing apparatus, information-reproducing method, and information-recording medium In an information-recording apparatus and the like according to the present invention, the recording apparatus records in a magnetic tape digital information on the left and right frames for three-dimensional display. The digital information is acquired by shooting ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362960 | Data recording method and data recording system as well as data recording medium A data recording method and a data recording system suitable for recording of a material for recording and attendant information are disclosed. When attendant information to video data generated corresponding to the video data is to be recorded, the video data are m... | 04/22/2008 |
