Digital still video camera, image data output system for digital still video camera, frame for data relay for digital still video camera, data transfer system for digital still video camera, and image regenerating apparatus

• US 6,111,605 A
• Filed: 11/06/1996
• Issued: 08/29/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/1995
• Status: Expired

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Suzuki, Hiroaki
• Primary Examiner(s): HO, TUAN V
• Application Number:
  US08/744,045
• Time in Patent Office: 1,392 Days
• Field of Search: 348/207, 348/231, 348/232, 348/233, 348/211, 348/212, 348/213, 348/552, 348/335, 348/360
• US Class Current: 348/220.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00129 with a display device, e.g. CRT or LCD monitor with a television apparatus H04N1/00283; arrangements for control of display devices G09G
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2112 using still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2125 Display of information relating to the still picture recording
• 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 1/2158 using a detachable storage unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/3871 the composed originals being of different kinds, e.g. low- and high-resolution originals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/41 Bandwidth or redundancy reduction by scanning H04N1/17 ; methods or arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals H04N19/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0049 By wire, cable or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0082 Image hardcopy reproducer H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/214 Checking or indicating the storage space
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3264 of sound signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3266 of text or character information, e.g. text accompanying an image H04N2201/3226 takes precedence

Abstract

The digital still video camera according to the present invention comprises a liquid crystal monitor and an operation display section and picture information input means for inputting picture information for a printer, an MEM as a memory means for storing inputted picture means, and a CPU, and IPP, a DCT, a coder, and an MCC each as a converting/transmitting means for converting the image data to be sent to the printer to that adapted to the printer according to the picture information stored in the HEM and sending the converted image data using a synchronizing signal adapted to the printer.

Claims

1. A digital still video camera having a function for transaction of image data as well as control data with external devices comprising:

a picture information input means for receiving image information from an image forming apparatus, one of said external devices;

a picture information memory means for storing therein picture information inputted from said picture information input means; and

a converting/sending means for converting image data to be sent to said image forming apparatus to image data adapted to said image forming apparatus according to the picture information stored in said picture information memory means and sending the image data using a synchronizing signal adapted to said image forming apparatus.

2. A digital still video camera having a function for transaction of image data as well as control data with external devices comprising:

a memory means for previously storing a plurality of picture information for the image forming apparatus as one of said external devices in correspondence to types of said image forming apparatus;

a selecting means for selecting desired picture information for an image forming apparatus from the picture information stored in said memory means; and

a converting/sending means for converting image data to be sent to said image forming apparatus to image data adapted to said image forming apparatus according to said selected picture information for the image forming apparatus and sending the image data using a synchronizing signal adapted to said image forming apparatus.

3. An image data output system for outputting image date from a digital still video camera having the function for transaction of data to recording paper through an image forming apparatus, wherein said image forming apparatus comprises:

a first memory means for storing picture information for the apparatus; and

a sending means for the picture information stored in said first memory means in response to a request from said digital still video camera to the side of the digital still video camera, and said digital still video camera comprises;

a picture information reading means for requesting picture information to be sent to said sending means in a case where image data is to be outputted through said image forming apparatus and reading in said picture information;

a second memory means for storing the picture information read in from said picture information reading means; and

a converting/sending means for converting image data to be sent to said image forming apparatus to image data adapted to said image forming apparatus according to the picture information stored in said second memory means and sending the image data using a synchronizing signal adapted to said image forming apparatus.