DATA STORAGE DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20140037262A1
• Filed: 07/23/2013
• Published: 02/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/02/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: SAKO, YOICHIRO, ASADA, KOHEI, SAKODA, KAZUYUKI, TANGE, AKIRA, WATANABE, KAZUHIRO, ARATANI, KATSUHISA, TAKEHARA, MITSURU, NAKAMURA, TAKATOSHI, HANAYA, HIROYUKI, KOGA, YUKI, ONUMA, TOMOYA, KAMADA, YASUNORI, HAYASHI, KAZUNORI, KON, TAKAYASU
• Application Number:
  US13/948,428
• Publication Number:
  US 20140037262A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/223
• 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 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

There is provided a data storage device that conducts at least one of audio recording and video recording, the data storage device including a trigger signal transmitter that transmits a given trigger signal to an external device, a storage controller that applies control to conduct the at least one of audio recording and video recording, and a marking unit that marks stored data acquired by the at least one of audio recording and video recording at a time of transmitting the trigger signal.

Claims

1. A data storage device that conducts at least one of audio recording and video recording, the data storage device comprising:

a trigger signal transmitter that transmits a given trigger signal to an external device;

a storage controller that applies control to conduct the at least one of audio recording and video recording; and

a marking unit that marks stored data acquired by the at least one of audio recording and video recording at a time of transmitting the trigger signal.

2. The data storage device according to claim 1, wherein the trigger signal instructs the external device to mark stored data acquired by the external device conducting at least one of audio recording and video recording.

3. The data storage device according to claim 1,

wherein the storage controller applies control to continually conduct the at least one of audio recording and video recording, and

wherein the trigger signal transmitter transmits the trigger signal to the external device periodically or non-periodically in a case of continually conducting the at least one of audio recording and video recording.

4. The data storage device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an instruction unit by which a user arbitrarily issues instructions to acquire stored data by the at least one of audio recording and video recording,

wherein the storage controller applies control to conduct the at least one of audio recording and video recording in response to instructions from the instruction unit, and

wherein the trigger signal transmitter transmits the trigger signal when the instruction unit is operated.

5. The data storage device according to claim 4, wherein the instruction unit is one of a shutter button and an audio record button.

6. The data storage device according to claim 1, wherein the data storage device is a wearable device capable of being worn on a user.

7. The data storage device according to claim 6, wherein the external device is one of external equipment disposed near the user, and a wearable device being worn on another user.

8. The data storage device according to claim 1, wherein the data storage device is external equipment disposed near a user indoors or outdoors.

9. The data storage device according to claim 8, wherein the external device is one of other external equipment disposed near the user, and a wearable device capable of being worn on the user.

10. The data storage device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a detector that detects a specific command,

wherein the storage controller applies control to conduct the at least one of audio recording and video recording in response to the specific command detected by the detector, and

wherein the trigger signal transmitter transmits the trigger signal to the external device in a case where the detector detects the specific command.

11. The data storage device according to claim 10, wherein the detector detects the specific command based on stored data acquired by at least one of audio recording and video recording.

12. The data storage device according to claim 10, wherein the specific command is one of a command instructing audio recording or video recording, and a command indicating an emergency.

13. The data storage device according to claim 10, wherein the detector furthermore generates additional information for conducting at least one of audio recording and video recording.

14. The data storage device according to claim 13, wherein the additional information is information indicating a direction of data acquisition by the at least one of audio recording and video recording in response to the specific command.

15. The data storage device according to claim 1, wherein the marking unit marks with time information.

16. The data storage device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a data generator that generates output data based on first stored data acquired by the data storage device conducting at least one of audio recording and video recording, and second stored data which is marked in a manner that the marking corresponds to a marking of the first stored data and which is acquired by the external device conducting at least one of audio recording and video recording; and

a playback unit that plays back output data generated by the data generator.

17. A storage medium having a program stored thereon, the program causing a computer to function as:

a trigger signal transmitter that transmits a given trigger signal to an external device;

a storage controller that applies control to conduct at least one of audio recording and video recording; and

a marking unit that marks stored data acquired by the at least one of audio recording and video recording at a time of transmitting the trigger signal.