Audio still camera system

• US 4,905,029 A
• Filed: 09/28/1988
• Issued: 02/27/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Scott A. Kelley
• Original Assignee: Scott A. Kelley
• Inventors: Kelley, Scott A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gellner, Michael L.
• Application Number:
  US07/250,712
• Time in Patent Office: 517 Days
• Field of Search: 354/76, 354/75, 354/106
• US Class Current: 396/312
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 2217/244 Magnetic devices
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 31/06 in which sound track is associated with successively-shown still pictures

Abstract

An Audio Still Camera System for recording a still image and sound, comprising a camera for recording still images onto a photogrpahic recording medium and sound recording means to record sound during the general time period in which the photographic record is made. The system includes a photographic recording medium with an integral suitable storage medium modifiable to record an acoustic signal. The system includes means for sound playback through the camera itself and or sound playback through separate means. The system allows the user to playback sound associated with a photograph after the photograph has been inserted into a photo album or frame. The system may be incorporated into the common cartridge film camera concept or the instant photograph camera concept. The result of the system is to present the user with a still photographic record enhanced by the dimension of sound.

Claims

1. An audio still camera apparatus for producing a still photograph with an associated reproducible acoustic message comprising:

a camera means for capturing a photographic image on a photographic rcording medium;

the camera means incorporating means for sensing an acoustic message associated with the photographic image and means for transferring the sensed acoustic message to acoustic recording medium and signaling means to visually or audibly indicate the beginning and termination of transferring sensed acoustic message to acoustic recording medium; and

means for sensing and converting the message from the acoustic recording medium to an electrical signal suitable for playback of the recorded message.

2. An audio still camera system comprising a non instant camera for recording still images onto a photographic recording medium, and:

a first means for receiving an acoustic signal and converting said acoustic signal into an electrical signal;

a second means for receiving and amplifying electrical signal from said first means;

a third means for receiving electrical signal from said second means and for modifying a suitable storage medium so that said suitable storage medium records electrical signal from said second means corresponding with a given still image recorded by said camera, so that such recordings from said second means shall for a given still image recording, begin at a time after the previous still image recording and terminate at a time before the following still image recording;

a suitable storage medium permanently or semi permanently housed inside said camera to accept modification from said third means;

a fourth means for sensing modified said suitable storage medium and for converting such sensation into an electrical signal;

a fith means for receiving and amplifying electrical signal from said fourth means;

a sixth means for receiving electrical signal from said fith means and for modifying a second suitable storage medium so that said second suitable storage medium records electrical signal from said fith means;

a second suitable storage medium to accept modification from said sixth means;

a seventh means for sensing modified said second suitable storage medium and for converting such sensation into an electrical signal;

an eighth means for receiving and amplifying electrical signal from said seventh means;

a ninth means for receiving electrical signal from said eighth means and for converting such signal into an audible acoustic signal;

a tenth signaling means to visually or audibly indicate the beginning and termination of recordings made by said third means.