Digital image storage system that controls storage of digital images in folders of a storage medium

• US 7,301,561 B2
• Filed: 10/08/2002
• Issued: 11/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Inventors: Ohmura, Akira
• Primary Examiner(s): Ye; Lin
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hernandez; Nelson D.
• Application Number:
  US10/065,360
• Publication Number:
  US 20030048364A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,876 Days
• Field of Search: 348/207.1, 348/231.2, 348/231.1, 348/231.3, 348/231.6, 348/207.2, 348/207.11, 348/211.1, 348/211.8, 348/211.3, 348/211.99, 348/231.9, 348/211.14, 348/211.13, 348/211.12, 348/211.9, 348/211.7, 348/211.4, 358/906
• US Class Current: 348/207.1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• 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: H04N 1/00127 Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture signals or of information associated with a still picture
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00283 with a television apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00347 with another still picture apparatus, e.g. hybrid still picture apparatus circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between image input and image output device H04N1/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00885 Power supply means, e.g. arrangements for the control of power supply to the apparatus or components thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00901 Using different supplies or connection to an external supply H04N1/00893, H04N1/00896 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/433 Content storage operation, e.g. storage operation in response to a pause request, caching operations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43632 involving a wired protocol, e.g. IEEE 1394 high-speed IEEE 1394 serial bus H04L12/40052
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4436 Power management, e.g. shutting down unused components of the receiver power management in computer systems G06F1/3203; hibernate or awake process in computer systems G06F9/4418
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/001 Sharing resources, e.g. processing power or memory, with a connected apparatus or enhancing the capability of the still picture apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0044 Connecting to a plurality of different apparatus; Using a plurality of different connectors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0058 Docking-station, cradle or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0074 Arrangements for the control of a still picture apparatus by the connected apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0082 Image hardcopy reproducer H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0087 Image storage device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0089 Image display device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/445 : for displaying additional information H04N5/50 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 : Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 : the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 : between a recording apparatus and a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 : on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/907 : using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/7921 : for more than one processing mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 : involving data reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8047 : using transform coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8063 : using time division multiplex of the PCM audio and PCM video signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 : involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8227 : the additional signal being at least another television signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8233 : the additional signal being a character code signal

Abstract

A digital image storage system includes a digital camera having a memory capable of storing digital images and a data storage including an adapter on which the digital camera is to be laid down. The data storage includes a storage medium that stores the digital images transmitted from the memory through the adapter and a controller that carries out a program for conducting the transmission and the storage of the digital images. The data storage further includes a detector that detects a signal from the adapter to have the program start. The program is designed to wait a command for a predetermine period to follow the command if the command comes within the predetermined period and to take a predetermined course if the predetermined period has expired without the command.

Claims

1. A digital image storage system comprising:

a digital camera having a memory capable of storing digital images;

a data storage including a docking station on which the digital camera can be placed, the data storage further including a storage medium that stores the digital images transmitted from the digital camera memory through the docking station; and

a controller that executes a program for controlling the transmission and the storage of the digital images in at least one folder in the storage medium, wherein after receiving a first command that will result in the transmitted digital images being stored in a predetermined folder, the controller waits for a predetermined period for a second command that designates a different folder in which the digital images are to be stored, and executes the second command if the second command is received within the predetermined period, the controller automatically executing the first command and storing the images in the predetermined folder if the predetermined period passes without receiving the second command.

2. The digital image storage system according to claim 1, further comprising a manually operable member for generating the second command.

3. The digital image storage system according to claim 2, wherein the manually operable member is arranged at the digital camera.

4. The digital image storage system according to claim 1, wherein the controller is located at the data storage.

5. The digital image storage system according to claim 1, wherein the controller receives a signal from the docking station to execute the program.

6. The digital image storage system according to claim 1, further comprising a user interface for generating the second command.

7. The digital image storage system according to claim 1, wherein the controller executes the program to automatically generate the first command.

8. A digital image storage system comprising:

a digital camera having a memory capable of storing digital images;

a docking station on which the digital camera can be placed;

a storage medium that stores the digital images transmitted from the digital camera memory through the docking station; and

a controller that executes a program for controlling the transmission and the storage of the digital images in at least one folder in the storage medium;

wherein after receiving a first command that will result in the transmitted digital images being stored in a predetermined folder, the controller waits for a predetermined period for a second command that designates a different folder in which the digital images are to be stored, and executes the second command if the second command is received within the predetermined period, the controller automatically executing the first command and storing the images in the predetermined folder if the predetermined period passes without receiving the second command.

9. The digital image storage system according to claim 8, further comprising a manually operable member for generating the second command.

10. The digital image storage system according to claim 9, wherein the manually operable member is arranged at the digital camera.

11. The digital image storage system according to claim 8, wherein the controller is located at the data storage.

12. The digital image storage system according to claim 8, wherein the controller receives a signal from the docking station to execute the program.

13. The digital image storage system according to claim 8, further comprising a user interface for generating the second command.

14. The digital image storage system according to claim 8, wherein the controller executes the program to automatically generate the first command.

15. A processor executable computer readable recording medium storing a program that includes instructions that when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform a method comprising:

receiving a first command that will result in the transmission of digital images from a digital camera through a docking station, and to a predetermined folder in a storage medium;

waiting for a predetermined period for a second command that designates another folder in which the digital images are to be stored in the storage medium; and

executing the second command if the second command is received within the predetermined period, the first command being executed automatically to store the images in the predetermined folder if the predetermined period passes without receiving the second command.