Video recording camera

• US 5,917,991 A
• Filed: 06/06/1995
• Issued: 06/29/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Ogawa, Masahiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Sniezek, Andrew L.
• Application Number:
  US08/470,689
• Time in Patent Office: 1,484 Days
• Field of Search: 360/33.1, 360/35.1, 360/71, 360/74.1, 360/60, 358/310, 358/335, 354/238.1, 348/211, 348/213, 386/119, 386/117
• US Class Current: 386/225
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 358/906 Hand-held camera with recorder in a single unit

Abstract

A video recording camera comprises image pick-up apparatus; recording apparatus including at least one recording head for recording on a record bearing medium an image signal obtained by the image pick-up apparatus, recording control apparatus for controlling the recording action of the recording apparatus, driving apparatus for driving the record bearing medium and the recording head relative to each other for recording the image signal; trigger apparatus, and timer apparatus responsive to the trigger apparatus for producing a control signal for actuating the driving apparatus after the lapse of a first predetermined period of time and producing a recording instruction signal at the recording control apparatus after the lapse of a second predetermined period of time which ensues after the first period of time.

Claims

1. A recording apparatus having a self-timer recording mode for recording an image signal on a recording medium, comprising:

a) image pick-up means for picking up an image of an object, and outputting an image signal corresponding to the picked-up image;

b) recording means provided with a recording head for recording on said recording medium said image signal outputted from said image pick-up means with said recording head;

c) drive means for driving said recording medium relative to said recording head at a speed required for recording;

d) recording mode setting means for setting an operation mode of said apparatus to the self-timer recording mode for a previously set period of time;

e) time-counting means for counting time when the operation mode of said apparatus is set to the self-timer recording mode to provide an elapsed period of time and generating an indicating signal when said elapsed period of time substantially equals said set period of time; and

f) control means for controlling said drive means and said recording means, in response to the generation of said indicating signal by said time-counting means, so as to cause said drive means to start driving said recording medium relative to said recording head at a speed below said speed required for recording and thereafter to cause said recording means to start recording on said recording medium said image signal outputted from said image pick-up means with said recording head when said recording medium is driven at said speed required for recording.

2. An apparatus according to claim 1, which further comprises means for informing progress of the time counting by said time-counting means.

3. An apparatus according to claim 1, where said recording medium is a disk-like recording medium.

4. An apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said drive means includes a motor which rotates said recording medium, said control means starts the rotation of said recording medium by said motor so to rotate at said speed below said speed required for recording in response to said indicating signal and when said recording medium rotates at said speed required for recording said control means starts the recording on said recording medium said image signal outputted from said image pick-up means with said recording read.