Image transmission apparatus

• US 4,910,604 A
• Filed: 05/20/1987
• Issued: 03/20/1990
• 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: Kimura, Norio, Suzuki, Yasutomo, Takei, Masahiro, Tsuruno, Kunio, Sakata, Tsuguhide, Taguchi, Tomishige
• Primary Examiner(s): Perkey, W. B.
• Application Number:
  US07/052,740
• Time in Patent Office: 1,035 Days
• Field of Search: 358/310, 358/335, 358/342, 358/313, 358/906, 358/909, 358/85, 358/86, 358/312, 360/35.1, 360/33.1, 360/9.1, 360/10.1, 379/93, 379/96, 379/100, 369/47
• US Class Current: 386/239
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/20 Disc-shaped record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2512 Floppy disks
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/22 Means responsive to presence or absence of recorded information signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/3027 used signal is digitally coded
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/3036 Time code signal
• 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: G11B 27/36 Monitoring, i.e. supervising the progress of recording or reproducing for digital recording G11B20/00 and s.gr.; for monitoring, testing or measuring of TV recorders of the type covered by H04N5/76 and subgroups, see H04N17/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/33315 reading or reproducing mode only, e.g. sheet size, resolution
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/64 Systems for the transmission or the storage of the colour picture signal; Details therefor, e.g. coding or decoding means therefor H04N19/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/08 Systems for the simultaneous or sequential transmission of more than one television signal, e.g. additional information signals, the signals occupying wholly or partially the same frequency band , e.g. by time division H04N7/007 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/79 Processing of colour television signals in connection with recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/87 Regeneration of colour television signals H04N9/80 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/877 by assembling picture element blocks in an intermediate memory
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 358/907 Track skippers, i.e. "groove skippers"

Abstract

An image transmission apparatus comprises means for separating color image information into a plurality of color signals and transmitting said plurality of color signals, display means for displaying a kind of the color signal transmitted by said transmitting means, and means for reproducing said color image information from a medium.

Claims

1. An image transmission apparatus comprising:

transmitting a frame image signal, and (3) transmitting a discrimination signal for representing which one of the field image signal and the frame image signal is to be transmitted, said transmitting means time-serially transmitting the discrimination signal together with one of the field image signal and the frame image signal over an external communication line.

2. An apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

storage means for storing said field or frame image signal.

3. An apparatus of claim 1 further comprising:

switching means for selecting which one of said field image signal and said frame image signal will be transmitted.

4. An apparatus of claim 2, further comprising:

reproducing means for reproducing said field or frame image signal from a medium.

5. An apparatus of claim 1, wherein said discrimination signal is transmitted prior to transmission of said field or frame image signal.

6. An image reception apparatus comprising:

(a) storage means for storing a received image signal, received over an external communication line;

(b) detecting means for detecting a discriminating signal for discriminating that said received image signal is a field or frame image signal, said discriminating signal being transmitted together with said image signal; and

(c) control means for controlling a storage state of said storage means on the basis of said discriminating signal detected by said detecting means.

7. An apparatus of claim 6, wherein said storage means comprises a semiconductor memory.

8. An apparatus of claim 7, wherein said semiconductor memory has a number of lines corresponding to horizontal lines for writing at least one-frame image signal.

9. An apparatus of claim 8, wherein said control means controls to write said received image signal in every other line of said memory when said discriminating signal representing said field image signal is detected.

10. An apparatus of claim 6 wherein said storage means includes:

(a) a memory for storing said received image signal; and

(b) recording means for reading to the stored image signal in said memory and storing a readout image signal in a recording medium.

11. An apparatus of claim 10, wherein said recording medium comprises a disk-like recording medium, and said recording means is capable of shifting a recording position in a radial direction of said disk-like recording medium.

12. An apparatus of claim 11, wherein said recording means comprises means for performing recording by forming concentric tracks on said disk-like recording medium.

13. An apparatus of claim 12, wherein each of said concentric tracks of said recording medium records a one-field image signal.

14. An apparatus of claim 10, wherein said control means comprises means for changing a recording area of said recording medium on the basis of said discriminating signal detected by said detecting means.

15. An apparatus of claim 14, wherein said control means increases said recording area when said discriminating signal represents said frame image signal as compared with a case wherein said discriminating signal represents said field image signal.

16. A transmission apparatus for reproducing an image signal from a recording medium on which the image signal is recorded together with a data signal associated therewith, and for externally transmitting said image signal and said data signal, comprising:

(a) reproducing means for reproducing said image signal ad said data signal from said recording medium; and

(b) means for externally and time-serially transmitting said image and data signals reproduced by said reproducing means over an external communication line, said data signal indicating whether the image signal is a field image signal or a frame image signal.

17. An apparatus of claim 16, wherein said data signal comprises a signal representing a recording medium position where said image signal is recorded.

18. An apparatus of claim 16, wherein said data signal comprises a signal representing a time when said image signal is recorded.

19. An apparatus of claim 18, wherein said data signal comprises a signal representing a date when said image signal is recorded.

20. An apparatus of claim 16, wherein said reproducing means includes:

(a) reproducing means for changing a reproduction position of said recording medium; and

(b) a memory for storing a signal reproduced by said reproducing means.

21. An apparatus of claim 16, wherein said transmitting means externally transmits said image and data signals at a rate lower than a reproduction rate of said reproducing means.

30. An apparatus according to claim 21, wherein said receiving means includes reception detecting means for detecting reception of the image signal.

22. A transmission apparatus for reproducing an image signal from a recording medium on which said image signal is recorded together with a data signal associated therewith by frequency multiplex, and for externally transmitting the image signal and the data signal, comprising:

(a) reproducing means for reproducing the image signal and the data signal from said recording medium; and

(b) means for externally and time-serially transmitting the image and data signals reproduced by said reproducing means over an external communication line, wherein said externally transmitting means time serially transmits the image signal and the data signal.

23. An apparatus of claim 22, wherein the data signal comprises a signal representing that the image signal is one of a field image signal and a frame image signal.

24. An apparatus of claim 22, wherein the data signal comprises a signal representing a recording medium position where the image signal is recorded.

25. An apparatus of claim 22, wherein the data signal comprises a signal representing a time when the image signal is recorded.

26. An apparatus of claim 25, wherein the data signal comprises a signal representing a date when the image signal is recorded.

27. An apparatus of claim 22, wherein said reproducing means includes:

(a) reproduction means for changing a reproduction position of said recording medium; and

(b) a memory for storing a signal reproduced by said reproduction means.

28. An apparatus of claim 22, wherein said transmitting means externally transmits the image and data signals at a rate lower than a reproducing rate of said reproducing means.

29. An image signal receiving apparatus comprising:

(a) means for receiving an image signal from a an external communication line;

(b) storage means for storing the image signal;

(c) detecting means for detecting a discriminating signal which indicates that the received image signal is one of a field image signal and a frame image signal, the discriminating signal being transmitted together with the image signal; and

(d) control means for controlling a storage state of said storage means on the basis of the discriminating signal detecting by said detecting means.

31. An apparatus according to claim 29, wherein said means for receiving is adapted to receive the image signal from a telephone line.

32. An apparatus of claim 29, wherein said storage means comprises a semiconductor memory.

33. An apparatus of claim 32, wherein said semiconductor memory has a number of lines corresponding to horizontal lines for writing at least one-frame of image signals.

34. An apparatus of claim 32, wherein said control means causes the received image signal to be written in every other line of said memory when the discriminating signal indicating a field image signal is detected.

35. An apparatus of claim 29, wherein said storage means includes:

(a) a memory for storing the received image signal; and

(b) recording means for reading out the image signal stored in said memory, and adapted for storing a readout image signal in a recording medium.

36. An apparatus of claim 35, wherein said recording medium comprises a disk-like recording medium, and wherein said recording means is capable of shifting a recording position in a radial direction of said disk-like recording medium.

37. An apparatus of claim 36, wherein said recording means comprises means for performing recording by forming concentric tracks on said disk-like recording medium.

38. An apparatus of claim 37, wherein each of said concentric tracks of said recording medium records one-field image signal.

39. An apparatus of claim 35, wherein said control means comprises means for changing a recording area of said recording medium on the basis of the discriminating signal detected by said detecting means.

40. An apparatus of claim 39, wherein said control means increases the recording area when the discriminating signal represents the frame image signal as compared with the case wherein the discriminating signal represents the field image signal.