IMAGE RECORDING REPRODUCING DEVICE

• US 20090231426A1
• Filed: 05/23/2007
• Published: 09/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Ookawa, Kentarou, Haraguchi, Takayuki, Tsuzuki, Kazuhisa
• Application Number:
  US12/302,419
• Publication Number:
  US 20090231426A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/143
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2056 by mirroring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0601 Interfaces specially adapted for storage systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0673 Single storage device
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/10 Digital recording or reproducing
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2516 Hard disks
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• 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 9/7921 for more than one processing mode

Abstract

An image recording/reproducing device is provided which, when a removable recording unit is mounted, can continuously use the unit while keeping previously recorded images and can improve convenience. A recording device 16 is an image recording/reproducing device and an HDD is a removable recording unit. When an HDD is added, the recording device 16 determines a format status of the added HDD, and further determines whether an HDD operation status, such as Single operation or Mirror operation, corresponds with a device operation status of the recording device 16 or not. The HDD operation status corresponds to a unit operation status. The recording device 16 recognizes an added HDD which is in the recording-device-formatted state and whose HDD operation status corresponds with the device operation status, with the current HDD operation status. The recording device 16 recognizes an added HDD which is in the recording-device-formatted sate and whose HDD operation status is different from the device operation status, with the HDD operation status rewritten such that it corresponds with the device operation status.

Claims

1. An image recording/reproducing device comprising:

a recording unit mount for mounting a plurality of removable recording units for recording an image;

a device-operation-status setting section for setting a device operation status which is an operation status on the recording device side about which of a Single operation and a Mirror operation is to be applied to the plurality of removable recording units;

a management information acquisition section for, when the removable recording unit is added to the recording unit mount, acquiring management information for managing a recording unit configuration from the added removable recording unit;

a format determination section for determining whether the added removable recording unit is in a recording-device-formatted state or not with reference to format status information included in the management information;

an operation status determination section for determining whether a unit operation status which is an operation status set in the added removable recording unit corresponds with the device operation status or not with reference to operation status information included in the management information; and

a recording unit recognition section for performing a recognition process on the added removable recording unit in accordance with determination results from the format determination section and the operation status determination section,

wherein the recording unit recognition section recognizes the added removable recording unit which is in the recording-device-formatted state and whose unit operation status corresponds with the device operation status, with the current unit operation status; and

recognizes the added removable recording unit which is in the recording-device-formatted state and whose unit operation status is different from the device operation status, with the unit operation status rewritten such that the unit operation status corresponds with the device operation status.

2. The image recording/reproducing device according to claim 1, wherein in a case where the device operation status is the Mirror operation and the recording unit mount is in a non-mounted state and when one removable recording unit which is in the recording-device-formatted state and whose unit operation status is the Single operation is mounted, the unit operation status of the added removable recording unit is rewritten to the Mirror operation, and then a Mirror One-Lung operation is performed.

3. The image recording/reproducing device according to claim 2, wherein when another removable recording unit which is in the recording-device-formatted state and whose unit operation status is the Single operation is mounted, the unit operation status of the added removable recording unit is rewritten to the Mirror operation, the operation is switched from the Mirror One-Lung operation to the Mirror operation, and Mirror restoration is performed.

4. A control method for an image recording/reproducing device having a recording unit mount for mounting a plurality of removable recording units for recording an image, the control method comprising:

setting a device operation status which is an operation status on the recording device side about which of a Single operation and a Mirror operation is to be applied to the plurality of removable recording units;

acquiring, when the removable recording unit is added to the recording unit mount, management information for managing a recording unit configuration from the added removable recording unit;

determining whether the added removable recording unit is in a recording-device-formatted state or not or not with reference to format status information included in the management information;

determining whether a unit operation status which is an operation status set in the added removable recording unit corresponds with the device operation status or not with reference to operation status information included in the management information; and

performing a recognition process on the added removable recording unit in accordance with determination results on the format status and the operation status,

wherein the recognition process recognizes the added removable recording unit which is in the recording-device-formatted state and whose unit operation status corresponds with the device operation status, with the current unit operation status; and

recognizes the added removable recording unit which is in the recording-device-formatted state and whose unit operation status is different from the device operation status, with the unit operation status rewritten such that the unit operation status corresponds with the device operation status.

5. A control program executed in an image recording/reproducing device having a recording unit mount for mounting a plurality of removable recording units for recording an image, the control program causing the image recording/reproducing device to execute the processes of:

setting a device operation status which is an operation status on the recording device side about which of a Single operation and a Mirror operation is to be applied to the plurality of removable recording units;

acquiring, when the removable recording unit is added to the recording unit mount, management information for managing a recording unit configuration from the added removable recording unit;

determining whether the added removable recording unit is in a recording-device-formatted state or not with reference to format status information included in the management information;

determining whether a unit operation status which is an operation status set in the added removable recording unit corresponds with the device operation status or not with reference to operation status information included in the management information; and

performing a recognition process on the added removable recording unit in accordance with determination results on the format status and the operation status,

wherein the recognition process recognizes the added removable recording unit which is in the recording-device-formatted state and whose unit operation status corresponds with the device operation status, with the current unit operation status; and

recognizes the added removable recording unit which is in the recording-device-formatted state and whose unit operation status is different from the device operation status, with the unit operation status rewritten such that the unit operation status corresponds with the device operation status.