Moving picture recording/reproducing apparatus and schedule setting method thereof
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsYuuichi Togashi, Yukio Oya, Hideki Saito
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Abstract
A moving picture recording/reproducing apparatus has a camera portion to take a moving picture, a compressor/expander which compresses and expands a video signal and an audio signal, a card slot which receives a memory card that records compressed video and audio data, and an LCD and a speaker which reproduces and outputs the video and audio data recorded in the memory card. This recording/reproducing apparatus has such a size that easily fits in a pocket of a jacket. The apparatus takes moving pictures and still pictures, and further records and reproduces video signals from an external apparatus.
Claims17
A portable moving picture recording/reproducing apparatus comprising:
- a portable housing;
- a battery which is provided in the housing and supplies power to each electric component which forms the recording/reproducing apparatus;
- a camera portion taking a moving picture and a still picture;
- a video encoder which compresses video signal obtained from the camera portion;
- a microphone recording sound;
- a audio encoder which compresses an audio signal obtained from the microphone;
- an input section which inputs a video signal and an audio signal from an external apparatus;
- a card slot receiving a memory card that records video data and audio data encoded by the video encoder and the audio encoder;
- a recording section which records the encoded video data and audio data in the memory card inserted in the card slot;
- a audio output section which reproduces and outputs the audio data recorded in the memory card;
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- a video output section which reproduces and outputs the video data recorded in the memory card.
A moving picture recording/reproducing apparatus comprising:
- a rotatable recording medium;
- a card slot receiving a removable and unrotatable recording medium;
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- a copying section which copies video data recorded in the rotatable recording medium to the unrotatable recording medium inserted in the card slot.
A schedule setting method in a moving picture recording/reproducing apparatus having a card slot to receive a rotatable recording medium and a removable and nonrotatable recording medium, comprising:
- determining, if the nonrotatable recording medium is inserted in the slot, whether a schedule file is recorded in the inserted recording medium;
- setting, in the apparatus, schedule information contained in the schedule file, if the schedule file is recorded in the inserted recording medium;
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- copying video data corresponding to the schedule information from the rotatable recording medium to the nonrotatable recording medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.