Image recording apparatus
First Claim
1. An image recording apparatus comprising:
- means for coding an video signal;
means for recording coding information obtained from said coding means on a recording medium;
means for displaying a magnitude of a coding rate of said coding means; and
said means for displaying a coding rate varying the form of the display according to the magnitude of said coding rate.
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Abstract
A conventional image recording apparatus like a video camera recorder may often bring about coding noises if an image to be inputted or a target object reaches a certain degree of complexity. The remaining time when data is to be recorded on a recording medium may be so varied according to the magnitude of the coding rate that the time cannot be easily grasped. To overcome these problems, the present image recording apparatus is arranged to vary the display based on the coding rate according to the magnitude of the coding rate so that the user can grasp how much the coding noises appear with sense. Further, by displaying the remaining volume and the coding rate of the recording medium associated therewith, the decreasing pace of the remaining time may be notified to the user.
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21 Claims
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1. An image recording apparatus comprising:
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means for coding an video signal;
means for recording coding information obtained from said coding means on a recording medium;
means for displaying a magnitude of a coding rate of said coding means; and
said means for displaying a coding rate varying the form of the display according to the magnitude of said coding rate. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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13. An image recording apparatus comprising:
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means for compressing and coding an video signal as varying a coding rate according to a complexity of said video signal and saving said compressed and coded codes on a recording medium; and
means for displaying if the coding rate of the coded video signal is larger than or smaller than a predetermined coding rate.
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17. An image recording apparatus comprising:
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means for compressing and coding a video signal and fixing a coding rate independently of the complexity of said video signal by varying a compression factor according to the complexity of a video signal to be inputted and recording said compressed and coded codes on a recording medium; and
means for displaying whether or not said compression factor exceeds a predetermined value.
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