IMAGING APPARATUS

• US 20080019660A1
• Filed: 02/12/2007
• Published: 01/24/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Matsumoto, Tetsuya
• Granted Patent: US 7,715,686 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/46
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 17/0405 Closing mechanism, e.g. door
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/455 said record carriers being in one device and being used as primary and secondary/backup media, e.g. HDD-DVD combo device, or as source and target media, e.g. PC and portable player
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 31/006 with video camera or receiver
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/025 Portable cases
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/907 using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/7921 for more than one processing mode

Abstract

An imaging apparatus including a first recording apparatus (optical disk drive) for recording information on a removable/loadable recording medium and a second recording apparatus (HDD) for recording information on a recording medium incorporated therein, in which the first recording apparatus is provided with a lid portion to be opened/closed for removing/loading a recording medium and a lid opening/closing mechanism for opening/closing the lid portion and opening operation of the lid portion by the lid opening/closing mechanism is inhibited while the second recording apparatus is in an access state.

Claims

1. An imaging apparatus comprising:

a photographing portion;

a first recording portion for recording information in a first recording medium; and

a second recording portion for recording information in a second recording medium, wherein

said imaging apparatus further comprises an unloading monitoring portion inhibiting unloading of the first recording medium while said second recording portion is accessing the second recording medium.

4. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said unloading monitoring portion inhibits unloading of the recording medium by virtue of an operating portion ignoring the user'"'"'s instruction to unload the recording medium.

5. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the accessing period is from when said operating portion has received a user'"'"'s instruction to start recording to when said operating portion receives the user'"'"'s instruction to stop the recording.

6. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said unloading monitoring portion displays a message on a display portion when it inhibits unloading of the recording medium.

7. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said second recording portion is a hard disk drive.

2. The imaging apparatus according to the first claim, wherein

the first recording portion has a lid portion to be opened when the first recording medium is unloaded;

and wherein

said unloading monitoring portion inhibits unloading of the first recording medium by inhibiting opening of the lid portion.

3. The imaging apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

said second recording portion is disposed at said lid portion.

8. A controlling method of an apparatus including a first recording portion for reading/writing information from/into a first recording medium and a second recording portion for reading/writing information from/into a second recording medium comprising the steps of:

inhibiting unloading of the first recording medium in an access period during which the second recording portion accesses the second recording medium and permitting unloading of the first recording medium in a non-access period during which the second recording portion does not access the second recording medium, if mode of operation is a dubbing mode in which information in the second recording medium is dubbed to the first recording medium; and

inhibiting unloading of the first recording medium if mode of operation is not a dubbing mode in which information in the second recording medium is dubbed to the first recording medium.

9. The controlling method according to claim 8, wherein

unloading of the first recording medium is inhibited when mode is a recording mode in which information is recorded onto the second recording medium.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein

the access period, in the dubbing mode, is a period from when the dubbing has been started to when the started dubbing is completed.

11. A recording apparatus comprising:

a first recording portion for reading/writing information from/into a first recording medium;

a second recording portion for reading/writing information from/into a second recording medium, and

a controlling portion controlling such that

unloading of the first recording medium is inhibited while the second recording portion is accessing the second recording medium and unloading of the first recording medium is permitted while the second recording portion is not accessing the second recording medium, if mode of operation is a dubbing mode in which information in the second recording medium is dubbed to the first recording medium, and

unloading of the first recording medium is inhibited if mode of operation is not a dubbing mode in which information in the second recording medium is dubbed to the first recording medium.

12. A controlling method of an apparatus including a first recording portion for reading/writing information from/into a first recording medium and a second recording portion for reading/writing information from/into a second recording medium comprising the steps of:

inhibiting unloading of the first recording medium while the second recording portion is accessing the second recording medium when recording information onto the second recording medium; and

permitting unloading of the first recording medium while the second recording portion is accessing the second recording medium when playing back information from the second recording medium.

13. The method of controlling according to claim 12, wherein

playing back of information from the second recording medium is stopped when unloading of the first recording medium is permitted.

14. The controlling method according to claim 12, wherein

a message confirming whether or not the first recording medium is allowed to be unloaded is output when unloading of the first recording medium is permitted.