Data recording apparatus and digital camera

• US 7,477,296 B2
• Filed: 12/01/2004
• Issued: 01/13/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: OM Digital Solutions Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: Okumura, Yoichiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Ometz; David
• Assistant Examiner(s): Le; Quang V
• Application Number:
  US11/001,590
• Publication Number:
  US 20050123270A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,504 Days
• Field of Search: 348/231.2, 348/231.3, 348/231.7, 348/231.8, 348/231.9
• US Class Current: 348/231.99
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/634 Warning indications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/907 using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8047 using transform coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

A data recording apparatus comprises a plurality of recording media, data generating means for generating recording data, recording means for, whenever the recording data is generated from the data generating means, allocating and recording the recording data in the plurality of recording media, and data transfer means for integrating, into one recording medium, the plurality of recording data recorded in a distributed manner in the plurality of recording media, when the data generating means and the recording means are not in operation.

Claims

1. A data recording apparatus comprising:

a recording media loading part which can be loaded with first and second recording media;

a data generating part which is adapted to continuously generate recording data; and

a data recording part which, whenever the recording data is continuously generated from the data generating part, records the recording data in the first and second recording media, alternately, while the first and second recording media is loaded in the recording media loading part;

wherein the data recording part includes a data transfer part which transfers the data recorded in the second recording medium to the first recording medium, such that the data recorded in the second recording medium is integrated with the data recorded in the first recording medium, if the continuous generation of the recording data from the data generating part is interrupted.

2. The data recording apparatus according to claim 1 including a manual operation member,

wherein the data generating part continuously generates the recording data while the manual operation member is operated, and transfers the data recorded in the second recording medium to the first recording medium, such that the data recorded in the second recording medium is integrated with the data recorded in the first recording medium, after the operation of the manual operation member is released.

3. The data recording apparatus according to claim 1, which is a digital camera,

wherein the recording data generated from the data generating part is subject image data taken by an image pickup device.

4. The data recording apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a judging part which judges whether or not the first and second recording media are loaded in the recording media loading part and whether or not a combination of the first and second recording media is proper,

wherein if the first and second recording media are loaded in the recording media loading part and the combination of the first and second recording media is proper, the data recording part records the recording data in the first and second recording media alternately whenever the recording data is generated from the data generating part.

5. The data recording apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the judging part makes a judgment on the basis of combination identification information recorded in each of the first and second of recording media.

6. The data recording apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the combination identification information is a file name of a file stored in each of the first and second recording media.

7. The data recording apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the combination identification information is a text information of a particular file stored in each of the first and second recording media.

8. The data recording apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the combination identification information is a volume label of the recording media.

9. The data recording apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the combination identification information is a directory name or a folder name.

10. The data recording apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising a warning part which displays a warning when a combination of the first and second of recording media is judged to be improper by the judging part.

11. The data recording apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the data recording part records data to be recorded in one recording medium when the combination of the first and second recording media is judged to be improper by the judging part.

12. The data recording apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the data recording part records the data to be recorded in the other recording medium when the one recording medium has run out of free space.

13. The data recording apparatus according to claim 1, which is a digital camera, wherein the recording data generated from the data generating part is subject image data taken by an image pickup device.

14. A digital camera, comprising:

an image pickup part which picks up an image of a subject light flux through a shooting lens by an image pickup device and outputs an image signal, and which continuously outputs the image signal while a release operation is continued;

an image processor which converts the image signal output from the image pickup part into digital image data;

a controller which controls an operation of the digital camera; and

a plurality of recording media that record the digital image data,

wherein the controller has a function of recording the digital image data output continuously from the image processor, in order, in different recording media and a function of aggregating the image data recorded in the plurality of recording media, to one recording medium after the release operation is released.

15. The digital camera according to claim 14, where the controller has a function of judging whether or not a combination of the plurality of recording media is proper, and records the digital image data in the plurality of recording media if the controller judges that the combination of the plurality of recording media is proper.