Image processing apparatus

• US 4,858,028 A
• Filed: 05/19/1987
• Issued: 08/15/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Okino, Tadashi
• Primary Examiner(s): PERKEY, WILLIAM B
• Application Number:
  US07/051,322
• Time in Patent Office: 819 Days
• Field of Search: 358/335, 358/342, 358/906, 358/909, 369/30, 369/47, 360/72.1
• US Class Current: 386/200
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/20 Disc-shaped record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00397 Switches, knobs or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2112 using still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2129 Recording in, or reproducing from, a specific memory area or areas, or recording or reproducing at a specific moment
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/215 Recording a sequence of still pictures, e.g. burst mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/635 Region indicators; Field of view indicators
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera

Abstract

An apparatus having an UP and DOWN switches which enable the user to set photographing conditions or parameters of the photographing condition, and which has a reproducing function by itself or by connection to an external device through an adapter. The UP and DOWN switches also enable the user to effect the frame or track feed for allowing a head to make an access to a desired track during reproduction.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

image pickup means for converting the image of an object into electric signals;

recording means for recording said electric signals at respective access positions on a medium having a plurality of blocks;

setting means for setting information;

a selecting means for selecting either of a first mode and a second mode;

control means for changing characteristics of said image pickup means according to said information set by said setting means when said first mode is selected by said selecting means, and for changing said respective access positions according to said information set by said setting means when said second mode is selected by said selecting means.

5. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said medium is a disk-type medium.

6. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said recording means includes a recording head movable with respect to said medium, wherein said setting means sets the position of said recording head relative to said medium.

2. An image processing apparatus according to claim I, wherein said image pickup means includes:

an image pickup device for converting the image of said object into said electric signals; and

optical means for optically focusing said image on said image pickup device.

3. An image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said optical means includes a shutter means for interrupting said image of said object.

4. An image processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said setting means sets the opening time of said shutter means.

7. A recording and/or reproducing apparatus comprising:

recording and/or reproducing means accessible to the respective recording blocks of a medium;

switching means for effecting a switching between a recording mode and a reproducing mode; and

means for changing the access position of said recording and/or reproducing means by an amount corresponding to one block, when said switching means has switched the mode from said recording mode to said reproducing mode.

8. A recording and/or reproducing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said recording and/or reproducing means includes a head which is movable with respect to said medium and is accessible to the respective recording blocks.

9. A recording and/or reproducing apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising:

means for outputting an instruction for manually changing the position accessed by said recording and/or reproducing means when said switching means has been switched to the reproducing mode.