Image recording and reproducing apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTatsushi Katayama, Nobuo Fukushima, Masayoshi Sekine
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Abstract
An image recording and reproducing apparatus includes a recording processing unit for receiving video signals in at least two different modes, and for recording the received video signals together with mode signals indicating the mode of the video signals. A signal reading unit reads a video signal and the corresponding mode signal recorded by the recording processing unit, and a detecting unit detects the mode of the video signal from the mode signal read by the signal reading unit. A generation unit generates a signal based on the video signal in accordance with the detected mode of the video signal such that the generated signal has a format that corresponds to the mode of the video signal.
Claims7
An image pickup apparatus, comprising:
- a pair of image pickup means for picking up respective images;
- image pickup mode control means for controlling said pair of image pickup means, said pair of image pickup means having at least the following modes:
- a mode in which a stereoscopic image is picked up by said pair of image pickup means;
- and
- a mode in which a panoramic image is picked up by said pair of image pickup means;
- a mode in which a modified aspect ratio image is picked up by said pair of image pickup means;
- a mode in which an HDTV image is picked up by said pair of image pickup means;
- selection means for selecting one of the modes associated with said image pickup mode control means;
- change means for changing a relative angle between optical axes of said pair of image pickup means according to the mode selected by said selection means;
- and
- recording means for recording a mode signal of said selection means together with an image signal picked up in the selected mode.
A method of processing an image, said method comprising the steps of:
- selecting an image pickup mode from:
- a mode in which a stereoscopic image is picked up;
- a mode in which a panoramic image is picked up, a mode in which a modified aspect ratio image is picked up;
- and a mode in which an HDTV image is picked up;
- controlling a pair of image pickup units to operate in accordance with the selected image pickup mode to produce an image signal;
- changing a relative angle between optical axes of said pair of image pickup units according to the mode selected by said selecting step;
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- recording on a recording medium a mode signal indicating the selected image pickup mode together with the image signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.