Data processing device and data copying method

• US 7,539,106 B2
• Filed: 08/21/2002
• Issued: 05/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Xacti Corporation (Office Support KK)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kaku, Junya, Miomo, Takahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Young; Wayne R
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHOW, VAN NGUYEN
• Application Number:
  US10/224,436
• Publication Number:
  US 20030038997A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,470 Days
• Field of Search: 369/84, 369/47.12, 369/47.13, 369/53.24, 707/104.1
• US Class Current: 369/53.24
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/20 Disc-shaped record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/218 Write-once discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2525 Magneto-optical [MO] discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2545 CDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/61 wherein solid state memory is used for storing A/V content
• 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 1/00132 in a digital photofinishing system, i.e. a system where digital photographic images undergo typical photofinishing processing, e.g. printing ordering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00175 from a still image storage medium H04N1/00172, H04N1/0018 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00193 to a portable storage medium, e.g. a read-writable compact disk
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00408 Display of information to the user, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0087 Image storage device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/214 Checking or indicating the storage space

Abstract

For use in copying data between a plurality of recording media, the present invention provides a data processing device adds up the amounts of data on a plurality of files recorded on a transmitting medium to thereby detect the total amount of copy data, displays an intermediate result of addition on a display unit while updating the result displayed during a process from the start of addition of the amounts of file data until the completion of addition and displays the final result of addition on the display unit upon the completion of addition. The user is unlikely to feel uneasy even when the detection of the total amount of copy data takes time.

Claims

1. A data processing device capable of copying data between a plurality of recording media and comprising

an arithmetic processor for adding up the amounts of data on a plurality of files recorded on a transmitting medium to thereby detect the total amount of copy data,

a display unit for displaying the total amount of copy data detected, and

a display controller for displaying an intermediate result of addition on the display unit while updating the result displayed during a process from the start of addition of the amounts of file data by the arithmetic processor until the completion of addition and displaying the final result of addition on the display unit upon the completion of addition

wherein updating and displaying the intermediate result a copy data total amount is displayed every time the amount of data in one file is added up in an initial stage of a detection procedure and as the detection procedure progresses the display updating process is thinned out as a function of at least one of time, file data amount, or number of files to gradually increase a display updating interval.

2. A data processing device according to claim 1 which further comprises a detector for detecting the data recordable capacity of a receiving medium and wherein the display controller displays on the display unit the detected data recordable capacity along with the total amount of copy data.

3. A data processing device according to claim 1 wherein the arithmetic processor starts to detect the total amount of copy data upon turning on a power source or a change of medium or in response to a copying command signal.

4. In copying data between a plurality of recording media, a data copying method comprising

executing a process for adding up the amounts of data on a plurality of files recorded on a transmitting medium to thereby detect the total amount of copy data,

displaying an intermediate result of addition on a display unit while updating the result displayed during a process from the start of addition of the amounts of file data until the completion of addition and

displaying the final result of addition on the display unit upon the completion of addition,

wherein when updating and displaying the intermediate result a copy data total amount is displayed every time the amount of data in one file is added up in an initial stage of a detection procedure and as the detection procedure progresses the display updating process is thinned out as a function of at least one of time, file data amount, or number of files to gradually increase a display update interval.

5. A data copying method according to claim 4 wherein the detection of the total amount of copy data is started upon turning on a power source or a change of medium or in response to a copying command signal.