Camera system including a separatable recorder

• US 5,576,839 A
• Filed: 03/18/1994
• Issued: 11/19/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Honda, Tsutomu, Sasaki, Gen, Morimoto, Yasuhiro, Naruto, Hirokazu
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Thai Q.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chevalier, Robert
• Application Number:
  US08/215,966
• Time in Patent Office: 977 Days
• Field of Search: 358/335, 358/342, 358/310, 358/340, 360/32, 360/18, 360/128, 360/133, 360/69, 360/74.5, 360/99.02, 360/27, 369/71, 369/292
• US Class Current: 386/263
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/107 of operating tapes
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/328 on a tape [TTOC]
• 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: G11B 31/006 with video camera or receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2112 using still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/78266 using more than one track for the recording of one television field or frame, i.e. segmented recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction

Abstract

A photographed image recording and reproducing system includes a camera portion and a recording and reproducing portion. The camera portion has an image pick-up device for picking up an object image and producing an electrical image signal corresponding to the object image, a signal processing device for processing the electrical image signal into an analog image data signal, and an output device for outputting the analog image data signal. The recording and reproducing portion has a receiver device for receiving the analog image data signal, a conversion device for converting the analog image data signal to a digital image data signal, a memory device for storing the digital image data signal, a recording device for recording the stored digital image data signal on a record medium, and a reproducing device for reproducing the object image based on the recorded digital image data signal.

Claims

1. A recording system comprising:

a mount portion in which one of a record medium and a cleaning member is mounted;

a device for recording data on the record medium;

a first device for discriminating whether an error occurs in a recording operation;

a device responsive to said first discriminating device for discharging the record medium from said mount portion when an error is discriminated to occur;

a second device for discriminating whether the cleaning member is mounted in said mount portion in place of the record medium; and

a control device responsive to said first and second discriminating devices for controlling said recording device to suspend the recording operation unless the cleaning member is discriminated to be mounted in the case of the record medium being discharged for occurrence of an error.

2. A recording system as defined in claim 1 further comprising a display device responsive to said first discriminating device for providing a warning indicative of occurrence of an error when the error is discriminated to occur.

3. A recording system comprising:

a mount portion in which a selected record medium is mounted;

a device for recording data on the selected record medium when the selected record medium is mounted in said mount portion;

a first device for discriminating whether an error occurs in a recording operation;

a device responsive to said first discriminating device for automatically discharging the selected record medium from said mount portion when an error in the recording operation of said selected record medium is discriminated to occur;

a second device for discriminating whether the selected record medium presently mounted in said mount portion is different from a latest discharged record medium discharged from said mount portion; and

a display device responsive to said second discriminating device for providing a warning indicative of a different record medium being mounted when the different record medium is discriminated to be mounted in said mount portion.

4. A recording system as defined in claim 3, wherein said discharging device is also responsive to said second discriminating device for discharging the different record medium from said mount portion when the different record medium is discriminated to be mounted in said mount portion.

5. A recording system as defined in claim 3, wherein the record medium is provided with information concerning an image recorded on the record medium, and said second discriminating device executes discrimination of a different record medium based on said information.

6. A recording system as defined in claim 5, wherein said information is index information.