Video recorder for recording moving and still picture information

• US 6,871,010 B1
• Filed: 08/17/2000
• Issued: 03/22/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: JVC Kenwood Corporation
• Original Assignee: Victor Company of Japan Limited (JVC Kenwood Corporation)
• Inventors: Ohtsuka, Takayuki, Aso, Michihiro, Taguchi, Kenji, Katoh, Hidehiro, Miyahara, Hiroyuki, Matsukawa, Nobuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): TRAN, THAI Q
• Application Number:
  US09/640,002
• Time in Patent Office: 1,678 Days
• Field of Search: H04/N00.5/76, H04/N00.9/79, H04/N00.5/225, 386/38, 386/107, 386/96, 386/1, 386/120, 386/121, 348/220, 348/221.1, 348/231.7, 348/231.8, 348/239
• US Class Current: 386/230
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/635 Region indicators; Field of view indicators
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• 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 5/9261 involving data reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/7921 for more than one processing mode

Abstract

When a still picture information is recorded on the recording medium 7 while a moving picture information is recorded by the VTR 6, a still picture information to be recorded can be confirmed and recorded by displaying the still picture information to be recorded in a sub picture frame on the screen of the viewfinder 8, which displays the moving picture information currently recorded.

Claims

1. A recording apparatus of a video signal comprising:

a first recording means for recording a digital video signal of moving picture information on a first recording medium;

a second recording means for recording a digital video signal of still picture information on a second recording medium;

switch means to be selectively pressed either halfway or all the way down;

a display means for displaying either said moving picture information or said still picture information;

a processing means for controlling the processing means to change the size of a picture of either one of the moving picture information and the still picture information or both of them to be displayed on the display means, and controlling the display of both the moving picture information and still picture information outputted from the processing means on the display means simultaneously when the switch is pressed halfway down; and

wherein the control means controls the second recording means to record a digital video signal of a still picture information on the second recording medium when the switch is pressed all the way down.

2. A recording method of a video signal comprising steps of:

recording a digital video signal of a moving picture information on a first recording medium;

displaying the moving picture information on a display means;

producing a still picture information to be recorded on a second recording medium extracted from the moving picture information;

displaying at least either one of a moving picture information and a still picture information on the display means by changing the size of at least either one of the moving picture information and the still picture information when a switch is selectively pressed down halfway or all the way down; and

recording a digital video signal of a still picture information on the second recording medium when the switch is pressed all the way down.