Electronic still camera capable of editing picture recorded on disk

• US 4,660,102 A
• Filed: 12/14/1984
• Issued: 04/21/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/1983
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kawakami, Chikuni, Nakadai, Katsuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Faber, Alan
• Application Number:
  US06/681,583
• Time in Patent Office: 858 Days
• Field of Search: 358/906, 358/335, 358/909, 360/35.1, 360/14.1, 360/15, 360/10.1, 360/33.1, 360/73
• US Class Current: 386/210
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/20 Disc-shaped record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2512 Floppy disks
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/026 on discs G11B27/028, G11B27/029 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 358/906 Hand-held camera with recorder in a single unit

Abstract

An electronic camera for shooting an object to store a still picture of the object in a first rotary magnetic recording medium in the form of video signals includes a driving device for turning the first rotary magnetic recording medium which is detachably mounted, and a recording device for recording video signals of a unit of still picture on the first rotary magnetic recording medium while rotating. The electronic still camera further includes a first terminal for receiving video signals of still picture read out from a second rotary magnetic recording medium, a second terminal for receiving a control signal in response to a reading operation of the video signals from the second rotary magnetic recording medium, and a control device for controlling the driving device and the recording device. The control device causes the first rotary magnetic recording medium to be turned in response to the control signal received on the second terminal so as to record a unit of video signals of still picture received on the first terminal on the first magnetic recording medium in response to the control signal.

Claims

1. An electronic still camera comprising:

imaging means for imaging an object to produce a unit of video signals representative of the object;

driving means for turning a first rotary magnetic recording medium which is detachably mounted thereon;

recording means for recording a unit of video signals on said first rotary magnetic recording medium while rotating;

a shutter release button for initiating the imaging of an object;

oscillator means for generating a first sync signal from said shutter release button;

control means, operative in response to operation of said shutter release button and the first sync signal, for controlling said imaging, driving and recording means so as to shoot an object and store a still picture of the object in said first rotary magnetic recording medium in the form of video signals;

first terminal means for receiving video signals representative of a still picture read out from a second rotary magnetic recording medium;

second terminal means for receiving a second sync signal in response to a reading operation of the video signals from said second rotary magnetic recording medium; and

selecting means for selectively conducting the first and second sync signals from said oscillator means and second terminal means, respectively, to said control means;

said control means also being responsive to the second sync signal received on said second terminal means and conducted by said selecting means to cause said first rotary magnetic recording medium to be turned so as to record a unit of video signals of a still picture received on said first terminal means onto said first magnetic recording medium.

2. An electronic still camera in accordance with claim 1, wherein said video and control signals received on said first and second terminal means, respectively, are supplied from a reproducing apparatus for reading out a unit of video signals of a still picture recorded on said second rotary magnetic recording medium which is detachably mounted.

3. An electronic still camera in accordance with claim 1, wherein said first and second rotary magnetic recording media include magnetic recording disks.

4. An electronic still camera in accordance with claim 1, wherein the unit of video signals include a field of video signals formed in a raster scanning fashion.

5. An electronic still camera in accordance with claim 1, wherein said control means is responsive to said shutter release button to cause said first rotary magnetic recording medium to be turned thereby recording a unit of video signals of a still picture received on said first terminal means onto said first magnetic recording medium.

6. An editing system for editing pictures recorded on a magnetic recording medium comprising:

an electronic still camera for shooting an object to thereby store first video signals representative of a still picture of the object in a first rotary magnetic recording medium; and

reproducing means for reproducing a unit of second video signals representative of a still picture and a first sync signal recorded on a second rotary magnetic recording medium which is detachably mounted thereon;

said still camera including,

imaging means for imaging an object to produce a unit of first video signals representative of the object,

driving means for turning said first rotary magnetic recording medium which is detachably mounted thereon,

recording means for recording a unit of video signals on said first rotary magnetic recording medium while rotating,

a shutter release button,

oscillator means for generating a second sync signal,

control means operative in response to said shutter release button and the second sync signal for controlling said imaging, driving and recording means so as to shoot an object to store a still picture of the object in said first rotary magnetic recording medium in the form of video signals,

first input means interconnected to said reproducing means for receiving the second video signals,

second input means interconnected to said reproducing means for receiving the first sinc signal, and

selecting means for selectively conducting the first and second sync signals from said second input means and oscillator means, respectively, to said control means;

said control means also being responsive to the first sync signal received on said second input means and conducted by said selecting means to cause said first rotary magnetic recording medium to be turned so as to record a unit of the second video signals of still picture received on said first input means onto said first magnetic recording medium.

7. An editing system in accordance with claim 6, wherein said first and second rotary magnetic recording media include magnetic recording disks.

8. An editing system in accordance with claim 6, wherein the unit of video signals include a field of video signals formed in a raster scanning fashion.

9. An editing system in accordance with claim 6, wherein said control means is responsive to said shutter release button to cause said first rotary magnetic recording medium to be turned thereby recording a unit of the second video signals of a still picture received on said first input means onto said first magnetic recording medium.