Image processing apparatus capable of displaying a plurality of screens

• US 5,050,003 A
• Filed: 11/07/1990
• Issued: 09/17/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/1987
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Yamagishi, Yoichi, Horii, Hiroyuki, Takayama, Makoto, Misumi, Hiroyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): MCELHENY JR, DONALD E
• Application Number:
  US07/609,077
• Time in Patent Office: 314 Days
• Field of Search: 360/33.1, 360/35.1, 360/14.1, 360/14.2, 360/14.3, 358/310, 358/311, 358/335, 358/342, 358/906, 358/909, 358/22, 358/108
• US Class Current: 386/230
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/20 Disc-shaped record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/61 wherein solid state memory is used for storing A/V content
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/65 wherein solid state memory is used for storing indexing information or metadata
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/90 Tape-like record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/107 of operating tapes
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/11 by using information not detectable on the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00384 Key input means, e.g. buttons or keypads electromechanical details of key input means in general H01H13/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0044 for image preview or review, e.g. to help the user position a sheet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00453 arranged in a two dimensional array
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00461 marking or otherwise tagging one or more displayed image, e.g. for selective reproduction
• 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 1/2137 with temporary storage before final recording, e.g. in a frame buffer
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/218 Deletion of stored data; Preventing such deletion
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/937 by assembling picture element blocks in an intermediate store
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 358/906 Hand-held camera with recorder in a single unit

Abstract

An image processing apparatus includes a reproducing device for reproducing recorded image data from a medium on which a plurality of image data are recorded. Apparatus is provided for supplying to a monitor the reproduced image data as a multi-screen wherein one screen of the monitor displays a plurality of smaller screens each corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of image data. Structure is provided for designating at least one of the smaller screens displayed on the multi-screen, and circuitry is provided for erasing from the medium image data corresponding to one of the smaller screens designated by the designating structure.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a) reproducing means for reproducing recorded image data from a medium on which a plurality of image data are recorded;

b) mean for supplying to a monitor the reproduced image data as a multi-screen wherein one screen of the monitor displays a plurality of smaller screens each corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of image data;

c) means for designating at least one of the smaller screens displayed on the multi-screen; and

d) means for erasing from the medium image data corresponding to one of the smaller screens designated by the designating means.

2. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

e) means for processing the image data recorded on the medium in accordance with a sequence of smaller screens designated by said designating means.

3. An apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said processing means comprises means for reproducing the image data recorded on the medium in the sequence of smaller screens designated by said designating means.

4. An apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said processing means comprises means for erasing the image data recorded on the medium in accordance with the sequence designated by said designating means.

5. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a television monitor as the monitor.

6. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said medium is a disc-shaped medium as the medium on which the plurality of image data are stored.

7. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said designating means includes:

means for selecting a desired one of said smaller screens which is displayed by said monitor in said multi-screen; and

a memory to store data corresponding to the screen selected by said selecting means.

8. An apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the data corresponding to said selected screen is an address of the medium in which the image data of the selected screen is recorded.

9. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a) reproducing means for reproducing recorded image data from a medium on which a plurality of image data are recorded;

b) means for supplying to a monitor the reproduced image data as a multi-screen in which a plurality of smaller screens are simultaneously displayed, each smaller screen corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of reproduced image data; and

c) means for designating one of the smaller screens whose image data is to be erased from the medium.

10. An apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising;

d) means for erasing from the medium the image data of the designated smaller screen designated by said designating means.

11. An apparatus according to claim 9. wherein said designating means includes:

a) means for selecting a desired one of said smaller screens which is displayed on the multi-screen;

b) means for indicating that the selected screen is to be erased; and

c) a memory for storing data corresponding to the screen indicated by said indicating means.

12. An apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising a television monitor as the monitor.

13. An apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said medium is a disc-shaped medium.

14. A reproducing apparatus for reproducing recorded image data from a medium on which the image data of a plurality of n screens are recorded, comprising:

a) means for outputting a plurality of multi-screens of image data, each multi-screen comprising a number n/m of the recorded screens, where n and m are integers and 1 <

m<

n; and

means for providing the multi-screens to a monitor.

15. An apparatus according to claim 14, wherein said n=50.

16. An apparatus according to claim 15, wherein said medium is a still video disc-shaped medium.

17. An apparatus according to claim 15, wherein said outputting means arranges the image data of 25 screens into a matrix form of 5×

5 and supplies a 5×

5 multi-screen to the monitor.

18. An apparatus according to claim 14, wherein said outputting means includes:

a) a memory for storing the image data of one multi-screen;

b) means for writing the image data of the one multi-screen into said memory; and

c) means for reading out the image data of the multi-screen from said memory, and for supplying the read out image data to the monitor.

19. An apparatus for reproducing a plurality of images recorded on a recording medium, comprising:

a) means for displaying the plurality of images recorded on said recording medium as a multi-screen of n×

m smaller screens, each smaller screen corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of recorded images, where n and m are integers;

b) selecting means comprising (n×

m) selecting switches, each switch corresponding to one of said smaller screens, for selecting one of the smaller screens; and

c) reproducing means for reproducing the image corresponding to the smaller screen selected by said selecting means.

20. A reproducing apparatus according to claim 19, wherein (n×

m) is 5×

5.

21. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a) reproducing means for reproducing recorded image data from a medium on which a plurality of image data are recorded;

b) means for supplying to a monitor the reproduced image data as a multi-screen in which a plurality of smaller screens are simultaneously displayed, each smaller screen corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of reproduced image data; and

c) means for designating one of the smaller screens whose image data is not to be further reproduced from the medium.

22. An apparatus according to claim 21, further comprising:

d) means for erasing from the medium the image data of the designated smaller screen designated by said designating means.

23. An apparatus according to claim 21, wherein said designating means includes:

means for selecting a desired one of said smaller screens which is displayed on the multi-screen;

means for indicating that the selected screen is to be erased; and

a memory for storing data corresponding to the screen indicated by said indicating means.

24. An apparatus according to claim 21, further comprising a television monitor as the monitor.

25. An apparatus according to claim 21, wherein said medium is a disc-shaped medium as the medium.