IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS AND IMAGE RECORDING CONTROL METHOD

• US 20120189286A1
• Filed: 01/13/2012
• Published: 07/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: TAKAYAMA, Yuji, YAMAUCHI, Kiyoshi
• Granted Patent: US 8,693,839 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/337
• 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 5/907 using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction

Abstract

An image recording apparatus includes: a recording process section recording an image on a recording medium; an output process section outputting the image; and a control section multiplexing information on timing for starting the recording of the image with the image output from the output process section before the recording process section starts recording the image on the recording medium.

Claims

1. An image recording apparatus comprising:

a recording process section recording an image on a recording medium;

an output process section outputting the image; and

a control section multiplexing information on timing for starting the recording of the image with the image output from the output process section before the recording process section starts recording the image on the recording medium.

2. An image recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the recording start timing information is information indicating a period to precede the recording of the image.

3. An image recording apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the recording start timing information is information indicating the number of frames of the image updated as time passes before the recording of the image is started.

4. An imaging recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the recording start timing information is information indicating that the apparatus is in a state of preparation for recording the image.

5. An image recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the output process section outputs a video signal in compliance with the serial digital interface standard as the output image.

6. An image recording apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the control section multiplexes the recording start timing information with a blanking period of the video signal.

7. An image recording apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the control section multiplexes the recording start timing information using a user bit area of time code information multiplexed with the blanking period.

8. An image recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control section multiplexes information indicating the termination of the recording of the image with the image output from the output process section when the recording of the image on the recording medium is terminated.

9. An image recording apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

an identification information reading section reading unique identification information set for the recording medium for recording the image, the identification information being read from the recording medium, wherein

the control section multiplexes the read identification information with the image output from the output process section.

10. An image recording apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the control section generates time-divided information from the read identification information and multiplexes the time-divided information with the image output from the output process section.

11. An image recording control method comprising:

recording an image on a recording medium;

outputting the image; and

multiplexing information on timing for starting the recording of the image with the output image before the recording of the image on the recording medium is started.

12. An image recording apparatus comprising:

an input process section extracting recording start timing information multiplexed with an input image, the information indicating timing for starting the recording of the image at the apparatus which has output the image;

a recording process section recording the input image in a recording medium; and

a control section controlling the operation of the recording process section based on the recording start timing information extracted by the input process section to record the input image in the recording medium in synchronism with the image recording operation of the apparatus which has output the image.