Image data storage method and system

• US 7,474,340 B2
• Filed: 10/30/2003
• Issued: 01/06/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Incorporated (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Incorporated (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ito, Mitsue, Hirai, Seiichi, Ueda, Hirotada
• Primary Examiner(s): Misleh; Justin P
• Application Number:
  US10/696,039
• Publication Number:
  US 20040090542A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,895 Days
• Field of Search: 348/143, 348/152, 348/153, 348/207.11, 348/231.5, 348/207.1, 348/333.04, 348/231.1
• US Class Current: 348/231.1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/216 Rewritable discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2545 CDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2562 DVDs [digital versatile discs]; Digital video discs; MMCDs; HDCDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2575 DVD-RAMs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• 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 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• 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 5/85 on discs or drums

Abstract

An image data storage method and system for editing image date transmitted from an image producing apparatus through a network and storing it in a removable recording medium includes a network, an image producing apparatus for transmitting image data through the network, an image storing and delivering server for storing the image data transmitted from the image producing apparatus through the network and delivering it through the network, an image receiving apparatus for communicating with the image storing and delivering server through the network to receive the image data from the image storing and delivering server, and an external recording apparatus combined with the image receiving apparatus for storing the image data from the image receiving apparatus in a recording medium. The image receiving apparatus stores reproduction software for reproducing the image data in the recording medium together with image data.

Claims

1. A method of storing image data, comprising the steps of:

obtaining image data from an image pick-up unit;

recording said image data in a first recording apparatus;

retrieving said image data recorded in said first recording apparatus in accordance with a predetermined retrieval condition;

displaying said retrieved image data as a list of information relating to said retrieved image data on a display; and

selecting a predetermined information from said list of information, reading image data related to the selected predetermined information from said first recording apparatus, by comparing the selected predetermined information to image data recorded in said first recording apparatus, selecting for read out image data related to the selected predetermined information based on the comparison and reading out the selected image data, and recording said read out image data related to the selected predetermined information in a second recording apparatus,

wherein said read out image data is image data specified by said selecting as specified image data to be preserved over a long period of time,

wherein when a total amount of all specified image data to be preserved over a long period of time in said second recording apparatus exceeds an unoccupied portion of said second recording apparatus, an indication of such is provided on said display,

wherein said image data is further added with time information indicating when said image data is obtained and said list of information contains said time information, and

wherein said image pick-up unit comprises a plurality of image pick-up devices and said image data obtained from each of said image pick-up devices is added with an identifier (ID) for identifying each of said image pick-up devices, said list of information further containing said ID.

2. A storing method of image data according to claim 1, wherein said image data contains information from a sensor and said list of information contains information from said sensor.

3. A storing method of image data according to claim 1, wherein said step of displaying said retrieved image data as said list further includes a step of designating in-point and out-point for selecting desired image data.

4. A storing method of image data according to claim 1, wherein said recording said read out image data related to the selected predetermined information in said second recording apparatus further includes a step of recording reproduction software for reproducing said recorded image data together with said image data.

5. A system for storing image data comprising:

a plurality of image pick-up units for outputting image data;

a transmission unit for transmitting said image data from said plurality of image pick-up units to a transmission path;

a first recording apparatus, coupled with said transmission path, for recording said image data from said plurality of image pick-up units;

a retrieving processing unit for retrieving said image data recorded in said first recording apparatus in accordance with a predetermined retrieval condition;

a display unit for displaying said retrieved image data as a list of information relating to said retrieved image data;

a selector for selecting predetermined information from said list of information and reading out image data related to the selected predetermined information from said first recording apparatus, by comparing the selected predetermined information to image data recorded in said first recording apparatus, selecting for read out image data related to the selected predetermined information based on the comparison and reading out the selected image data; and

a second recording apparatus for recording said read out image data related to the selected predetermined information,

wherein said read out image data is image data specified by said selector as specified image data to be preserved over a long period of time,

wherein when a total amount of all specified image data to be preserved over a long period of time in said second recording apparatus exceeds an unoccupied portion of said second recording apparatus, an indication of such is provided on said display, and

wherein said image data obtained from each of said plurality of image pick-up units is added with an identifier (ID) for identifying each of said plurality of image pick-up units and said list of information further contains said ID.

6. A storing system of image data according to claim 5, further comprising:

a sensor,

wherein said image data contains information from said sensor and said list of information contains information from said sensor.

7. A storing system of image data according to claim 5, wherein said image data is further added with time information indicating when said image data is obtained and said list of information contains said time information.