Electronic camera, information device and portable information apparatus

• US 7,221,865 B2
• Filed: 11/21/2003
• Issued: 05/22/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: OM Digital Solutions Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: Nonaka, Osamu
• Primary Examiner(s): PERKEY, WILLIAM B
• Application Number:
  US10/719,253
• Publication Number:
  US 20040101297A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,278 Days
• Field of Search: 396/287, 396/310, 348/231.3, 348/333.01, 348/333.02, 348/333.04, 348/333.05
• US Class Current: 396/287
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/24 with means for separately producing marks on the film, e.g. title, time of exposure
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6209 to a single file or object, e.g. in a secure envelope, encrypted and accessed using a key, or with access control rules appended to the object itself
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes

Abstract

An electronic camera comprising an LCD panel for image reproduction and an imaging device is disclosed, in which private information attaching a predetermined attribute to a designated photographed image can be input, and in accordance with the private information, the image reproduction on the LCD panel is prohibited by a command from a CPU.

Claims

1. An electronic camera comprising:

an imaging unit;

an image reproduction monitor;

an information input unit which adds private information at the time of photographing an image; and

a prohibition unit which prohibits the reproduction of an image on the image reproduction monitor in accordance with the private information.

2. An electronic camera according to claim 1,

wherein the image reproduction is prohibited by displaying predetermined information different from the recorded image data.

3. An electronic camera according to claim 1,

wherein the image reproduction is prohibited by displaying by converting the recorded image data into a different image.

4. An electronic camera comprising:

an imaging unit;

a display unit having a first image recording area and a second image recording area different from the first image recording area, the display unit displaying the image recorded in the first image recording area in priority;

a judgment unit which judges the private imaging operation at the time of imaging operation; and

a recording control unit which records information in the second image recording area in accordance with the judgment of the private imaging operation.

5. An electronic camera configured to execute recording and reproducing an image and a voice, comprising:

a selecting unit which adds private information at the time of recording, and selects one of a mode for reproducing only the image and a mode for reproducing both the image and the voice at the time of reproduction in accordance with the private information.

6. An electronic camera according to claim 5,

wherein the selecting unit selects the mode for reproducing only the image in priority in private mode, and selects the mode for reproducing both the image and the voice only by a predetermined operation.

7. An electronic camera comprising first and second electronic monitors arranged on the finder and the back of the camera, respectively, further comprising:

an information input unit which adds private information at the time of imaging operation; and

a determining unit which determines the reproduction in selected one of the first electronic monitor and the second electronic monitor in accordance with the private information.