Method for recording and for confirming the recording of images in an image filing apparatus

• US 4,736,256 A
• Filed: 09/03/1985
• Issued: 04/05/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/1984
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Olympus Optical Corporation Limited (Olympus Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Olympus Optical Corporation Limited (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: Ichikawa, Kaori
• Primary Examiner(s): Richardson, Robert L.
• Application Number:
  US06/771,903
• Time in Patent Office: 945 Days
• Field of Search: 358/335, 358/342, 358/102, 358/903, 358/296, 369/32, 369/33, 360/35.1
• US Class Current: 386/230
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2175 with local image input
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/92 Transformation of the television signal for recording, e.g. modulation, frequency changing; Inverse transformation for playback
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/7921 for more than one processing mode

Abstract

In an image filing apparatus having a reproducing mode for reproducing the already recorded image and a first recording mode for recording image signals supplied from an image pick-up device while the image supplied from the image picking-up device is always displayed on a display unit, there is provided a second recording mode in which just after an image signal is recorded on an optical disc, the thus recorded image signal is automatically read out and is displayed on the display unit for a predetermined time interval, and then the currently picked-up image is displayed on the display unit to start the recording operation of the next image. Therefore, it is possible to confirm whether or not the recorded image is correctly recorded in an easy and swift manner.

Claims

1. A method for recording and for confirming the recording of images in an image filing apparatus comprising the steps of:

recording image signals of respective single frames on a record medium;

reproducing an image signal of a single frame recorded on the record medium to generate a reproduced image signal;

displaying the reproduced image signal of said single frame as a still picture on a display screen; and

controlling said recording, reproducing and displaying steps in such a manner that immediately after an image signal of a single frame has been recorded on the record medium during said recording step, said reproducing and displaying steps are performed whereby the image signal of said single frame is automatically reproduced from the record medium during said reproducing step and is automatically displayed on said display screen during said displaying step as a still picture for a predetermined time interval during which said recorded image signal can be confirmed.

2. A method for recording and for confirming the recording of images in an image filling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said controlling step further comprises the steps of:

inputing commands for operating said image filing apparatus selectively in one of three operation modes;

a reproducing mode, wherein said reproducing step is performed to reproduce an image signal recorded on the record medium, and said displaying step is performed to display a still picture of the reproduced image signal on said display screen,

a first recording mode wherein said recording step is performed to record an image signal of a single frame on the record medium, and

a second recording mode wherein, immediately after an image signal has been recorded on the record medium during said recording step, the image signal thus recorded is automatically reproduced during the reproducing step, a still picture of the reproduced signal is automatically displayed on the display screen for the predetermined time interval during the displaying step, and then said recording step is performed to record an image signal of a subsequent single frame.

3. A method for recording and for confirming the recording of images in an image filing apparatus as recited in claim 2, wherein said inputing step further includes the step of supplying a track number corresponding to a track of the record medium on which an image signal of a single frame has been recorded on the record medium, and wherein said controlling step further includes the step of selectively reproducing an image signal recorded on the track of the record medium denoted by the inputed track number.

4. A method for recording and for confirming the recording of images in an image filing apparatus as recited in claim 3, wherein when image signals of a plurality of frames to be successively reproduced are recorded on successive tracks on the record medium, said inputting step is performed to input a track number only for a track corresponding to a first one of said plurality of frames.

5. A method for recording and for confirming the recording of images in an image filing apparatus as recited in claim 2, wherein said inputting step further comprises the step of supplying a track number denoting a track of the record medium, and wherein said controlling step further comprises the steps of selectively recording an image signal of said single frame on said track of the record medium denoted by the inputed track number.

6. A method for recording and for confirming the recording of images in an image filing apparatus as recited in claim 5, wherein when image signals of a plurality of frames to be successively reproduced are recorded on successive tracks of the record medium, said inputing step is performed to input a track number only for a track corresponding to a first one of said plurality of frames.

7. A method for recording and for confirming the recording of images in an image filing apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein said controlling step further comprises the step of generating a pulse beginning at a time when an image signal of a single frame has just been recorded on the record medium, said pulse having a duration equal to the predetermined time interval during which said image signal just recorded is automatically reproduced during said reproducing step and displayed during said displaying step.