Camera for recording shot data on a magnetic recording area of a film

• US 5,682,458 A
• Filed: 06/18/1996
• Issued: 10/28/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Funazaki, Fumihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): TRAN, THAI Q
• Application Number:
  US08/664,613
• Time in Patent Office: 497 Days
• Field of Search: 386/38, 386/95, 386/117, 386/128, 348/96, 348/97, 348/207, 348/231, 348/232, 348/371, 348/373, 358/906, 358/909.1
• US Class Current: 386/225
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 2217/244 Magnetic devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00249 with a photographic apparatus, e.g. a photographic printer or a projector photographic apparatus per se G03B, G03D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00267 with a viewing or projecting apparatus, e.g. for reading image information from a film H04N1/00262 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0027 Reading or writing of non-image information from or to a photographic material, e.g. processing data stored in a magnetic track
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2166 for mass storage, e.g. in document filing systems information retrieval G06F16/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32101 Display, printing, storage or transmission of additional information, e.g. ID code, date and time or title
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3225 of data relating to an image, a page or a document
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3226 of identification information or the like, e.g. ID code, index, title, part of an image, reduced-size image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3252 Image capture parameters, e.g. resolution, illumination conditions, orientation of the image capture device H04N2201/3256 and subgroups take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3277 The additional information being stored in the same storage device as the image data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 3/36 Scanning of motion picture films, e.g. for telecine
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/9206 the additional signal being a character code signal

Abstract

A camera and a video filing system practicable therewith are disclosed. The camera has a body and a plurality of component parts removably mounted on the body and including a lens and a stroboscope. The body and component parts each has a respective condition data output section for outputting shooting conditions, and a respective ROM (Read Only Memory) storing a type and other inherent data beforehand. A processor reads the data from such condition data output sections and ROMs at the time of shooting and records them in a magnetic recording area formed in a silver halide sensitive type of film. As a result, images are recorded in the film together with shot data associated therewith. The video filing system automatically reads the image data and shot data out of the film and records the image data in an optical disk or similar recording medium by using the shot data as keywords, thereby constructing a video data base. The system, therefore, saves time and labor otherwise needed in inputting the keywords by hand.

Claims

1. A camera system comprising:

a film chamber for receiving a silver halide sensitive type of film for recording images representative of desired objects;

a camera body loaded with said film; and

a plurality of component parts removably mounted on said camera body and including a lens and a stroboscope;

said film including a magnetic recording area for recording shot data generated at the time of shooting image by image;

said camera body and said plurality of component parts each comprising a respective condition data output section for outputting condition data representative of shooting conditions shot by shot, and a respective storage storing inherent data particular thereto;

said camera body comprising a controller for reading, when catching an object on said film, said condition data and said inherent data fed from said respective condition data output section and said respective storage, respectively, and recording said condition data and said inherent data in said magnetic recording area of said film as said shot data.

2. A camera system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said camera body comprises inputting means for allowing additional data relating to a shot to be manually input thereon, said controller recording said additional data in said magnetic recording area of said film as said shot data together with said condition data and said inherent data.

3. A camera system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said controller reads data representative of features particular to said film and records said data in said magnetic recording area of said film together with said condition data and said inherent data as said shot data.

4. The camera system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the inherent data stored in the storage of said camera body includes a camera model number.

5. The camera system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the inherent data stored in the storage of said lens includes a lens type.

6. The camera system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the inherent data stored in the storage of said stroboscope includes a stroboscope type.

7. The camera system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the storage of said camera body, the storage of said lens and the storage of said stroboscope are read only memories.