Digital image storage and digital storage system

• US 20080158367A1
• Filed: 02/22/2008
• Published: 07/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Inventors: Ohmura, Akira, Tanaka, Masahide, Nomoto, Tetsushi, Ishino, Yukinobu
• Application Number:
  US12/071,562
• Publication Number:
  US 20080158367A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/207.1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00127 Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture signals or of information associated with a still picture
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00283 with a television apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00347 with another still picture apparatus, e.g. hybrid still picture apparatus circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between image input and image output device H04N1/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00885 Power supply means, e.g. arrangements for the control of power supply to the apparatus or components thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00901 Using different supplies or connection to an external supply H04N1/00893, H04N1/00896 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/433 Content storage operation, e.g. storage operation in response to a pause request, caching operations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43632 involving a wired protocol, e.g. IEEE 1394 high-speed IEEE 1394 serial bus H04L12/40052
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4436 Power management, e.g. shutting down unused components of the receiver power management in computer systems G06F1/3203; hibernate or awake process in computer systems G06F9/4418
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/001 Sharing resources, e.g. processing power or memory, with a connected apparatus or enhancing the capability of the still picture apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0044 Connecting to a plurality of different apparatus; Using a plurality of different connectors connection via a network H04N2201/0039
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0058 Docking-station, cradle or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0074 Arrangements for the control of a still picture apparatus by the connected apparatus arrangements for the control of the connected apparatus by the still picture apparatus H04N2201/0013; control of image communication with the connected apparatus H04N2201/0015
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0082 Image hardcopy reproducer H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0087 Image storage device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0089 Image display device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/445 : for displaying additional information H04N5/50 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 : Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 : the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 : between a recording apparatus and a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 : on disks 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 : involving data reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8047 : using transform coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8063 : using time division multiplex of the PCM audio and PCM video signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 : involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8227 : the additional signal being at least another television signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8233 : the additional signal being a character code signal

Abstract

A digital image storage includes a connector for communicating with a digital camera and a detector that detects a signal to cause the transmission of a digital data from a memory of the digital camera to the digital image storage. The digital image storage further includes a function unit responsive to the signal from the detector to carry out the transmission of the digital data of images with the other digital data not transmitted and a storage medium that stores the transmitted data of the images.

Claims

1. A digital image storage for use with a digital camera having a memory capable of storing digital data of images and other digital data, the digital image storage comprising:

a connector for communicating with the digital camera, the connector includes a docking station for coupling with the digital camera;

a controller that causes the digital camera to transmit the digital data of the images, but not the other digital data of any stored documents, from the memory of the digital camera to the digital image storage while the digital camera is coupled to the connector, the controller causing the digital camera to transmit the digital data without a selection by a user of a kind of file to transmit; and

a storage medium that stores the transmitted digital data of the images.

2. The digital image storage according to claim 1, wherein the controller causes the digital camera to transmit the digital data of all the images in the memory to the digital image storage.

3. The digital image storage according to claim 1, wherein the digital data of the images includes still images and motion picture images.

4. The digital image storage according to claim 1, wherein the controller causes the transmission of the digital data of the images in order of the time when respective digital data of images were taken by the digital camera.

5. The digital image storage according to claim 1, wherein the controller detects a signal through the connector to cause the transmission of the digital data of the images.

6. The digital image storage according to claim 1, wherein the docking station charges a battery of the digital camera while the digital camera is coupled with the docking station.

7. The digital image storage according to claim 1, wherein a signal that causes the controller to start the transmission of the digital data of the images is output from the docking station after the coupling of the digital camera with the docking station.

8. The digital image storage according to claim 1, wherein the docking station has a shape to fit a bottom of the digital camera.

9. A storage medium that stores a computer program that is executable by a controller of a digital image storage that can be used with a digital camera having a memory capable of storing digital data of images and other digital data, the digital data of the images being transmitted from the digital camera memory to the digital image storage by way of a docking station capable of being coupled with the digital camera, the computer program comprising instructions to cause the controller to perform the steps of:

detecting receipt of a signal from the docking station to initiate the transmission of the digital data from the memory of the digital camera to the digital image storage;

in response to the signal, performing the transmission of the digital data of the images, but not the other digital data of any stored documents, from the memory of the digital camera while the digital camera is coupled to the digital image storage through the docking station, the transmission of the digital data occurring without a selection by a user of a kind of file to transmit; and

storing the transmitted digital data of the images in the digital image storage.

10. A digital image storage system for use with a digital camera having a memory capable of storing digital data of images and other digital data, the system comprising:

a docking station on which the digital camera can be placed to communicate with the digital camera; and

an image storage in communication with the docking station, the image storage including a storage medium and a controller that causes the transmission of the digital data of the images, but not the other digital data of any stored documents, from the memory of the digital camera through the docking station and to the storage medium of the image storage while the digital camera is placed on the docking station, the transmission of the digital data occurring without a selection by a user of a kind of file to transmit.

11. The digital image storage system according to claim 10, wherein the controller causes the digital camera to transmit the digital data of all the images in the memory to the image storage.

12. The digital image storage system according to claim 10, wherein the digital data of the images includes still images and motion picture images.

13. The digital image storage system according to claim 10, wherein the controller causes the transmission of the digital data of the images in order of the time when respective digital data of images were taken by the digital camera.

14. The digital image storage system according to claim 10, wherein the controller detects a signal to cause the transmission of the digital data of the images.

15. The digital image storage system according to claim 10, wherein the docking station charges a battery of the digital camera while the digital camera is coupled to the docking station.

16. The digital image storage system according to claim 10, wherein a signal that causes the controller to start the transmission of the digital data of the images is output from the docking station after the placement of the digital camera on the docking station.

17. The digital image storage system according to claim 10, wherein the docking station has a shape to fit a bottom of the digital camera.