Camera capable of recording sounds relevant to the photographing

• US 5,128,700 A
• Filed: 05/11/1990
• Issued: 07/07/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/1989
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Ueda, Hiroshi, Inoue, Manabu, Taniguchi, Nobuyuki, Yagi, Masakazu, Hirano, Masayasu, Mima, Yujiro
• Primary Examiner(s): HIx, L. T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): BLANKENSHIP, HOWARD BENNETT
• Application Number:
  US07/525,965
• Time in Patent Office: 788 Days
• Field of Search: 354/76, 354/105-109, 354/21, 352/27, 352/92, 352/236, 358/909
• US Class Current: 396/312
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/24 with means for separately producing marks on the film, e.g. title, time of exposure
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 2206/002 using detachable memory means
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 2206/004 using markings on the photographic material, e.g. to indicate pseudo-panoramic exposure
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 2206/006 of the bar-code type
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 2217/243 Optical devices
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 2217/246 Details of the markings
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 2217/247 Bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 31/06 in which sound track is associated with successively-shown still pictures

Abstract

In a camera capable of recording sound data corresponding to photographed frames of a film respectively, the sound data can be recorded in a first memory (e.g. a sound IC card), and data indicating correspondence between the photographed frames of a film and the sound data respectively can be recorded in a second memory (e.g. a film). Though the first memory, namely, the sound recording memory and the second memory, namely, the film are separate, the recorded sounds can accurately correspond to the photographed frames of the film respectively.

In a sound playback apparatus, by attaching thereto a medium in which sound data are recorded in each area thereof and a print in each frame of which a code indicating a sound recording area is recorded, the sound playback apparatus can play back sound data corresponding to the photographed frames of the film respectively from the medium.

Claims

1. A sound recording camera capable of photographing a plurality of frames and of recording sound corresponding to respective frames, comprising:

means for photographing an object into one of a plurality of frames in a film loaded in the camera;

means for receiving and for converting sound received thereby into a corresponding electrical sound signal, said sound corresponding to the photographed frame;

first memory means capable of storing said electrical sound signal into one of a plurality of first regions provided in said first memory means;

means for designating one of the plurality of first regions in said first memory means into which said electrical sound signal is stored, said designating means producing a designating signal representative of said designated first region;

means for transmitting said electrical sound signal converted by said converting means to said first region designated by said designating means in order to store said electrical sound signal in said first region of the first memory means;

second memory means having a plurality of second regions each of which correspond to each frame of the film respectively; and

means for recording said designating signal in a second region corresponding to the photographed frame in said second memory means.

2. A sound recording camera as claimed in claim 1, wherein said second memory means is provided on the film, and said recording means includes means for optically recording said designating signal in a second region corresponding to the photographed frame.

3. A data recording camera system including a camera body and a plurality of memory means interchangeably attachable to said camera body, comprising:

means, provided in said camera body, for photographing an object into one of a plurality of frames of a film loaded in the camera body;

means, provided in said camera body, for producing a plurality of frame data, each frame data relating to a photographed frame;

means, provided in each of said plurality of memory means, for producing identification data peculiar to each memory means respectively, each memory means having a plurality of memory regions into which the plurality of frame data, each relating to a photographed frame, will be respectively stored;

means, provided in said camera body, for designating one of the plurality of memory regions into which the frame data should be stored, to produce a designating signal representing said designated memory region;

first means, provided in said camera body, for recording said frame data to said designated memory region in a memory means attached to said camera body;

means, provided in said camera body, for receiving the identification data of said memory means attached to said camera body; and

second means, provided in said camera body, for recording said identification data received and said designating signal at a position corresponding to said photographed frame in a film cartridge loaded in the camera.

4. A data recording camera system as claimed in claim 3, wherein said frame data producing means includes means for converting sound corresponding to the photographed frame into corresponding sound data.

5. A data recording camera system as claimed in claim 3, wherein said second recording means includes means for recording said identification data received and said designating signal on a film strip of the film.

6. A data recording camera system as claimed in claim 3, wherein said second recording means includes means for recording said identification data received and said designating signal on a recording medium built in a film cartridge of the film.

7. A sound recording camera, comprising:

means for recording an image of an object on a recording medium;

means for receiving sound and for recording received sound;

means for setting the operation timing of said image recording means;

means for setting the operation timing of said sound recording means in relation to the set operation timing of said image recording means;

means for controlling said image recording means in accordance with the set operation timing of said image recording means;

means for controlling said sound recording means in accordance with the set operation timing of said sound recording means; and

means for displaying the set operation timing of said sound recording means with respect to the set operation timing of said image recording means.

8. A sound recording camera as claimed in claim 7, further comprising, means, in accordance with a manual operation, for determining whether or not said sound recording means will be operated, and means for displaying an indication when said determining means determines that said sound recording means will be operated.

9. A sound recording camera as claimed in claim 8, wherein said displaying means includes means for displaying a first indication representing the set operation timing of said image recording means, and at least one second indication representing the set operation timing of said sound recording means, said second indication being displayed at a position corresponding to the relation between the set operation timing of said image recording means and the set operation timing of said sound recording means.