Electronic still camera
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsHiroki Fukuoka, Katsuhiko Manabe
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Abstract
An electronic still camera which photographs an object and outputs image data. An image data coding device codes the image data. The coded image data is recorded to a recording medium. Sound data can also be converted to an electric signal and the sound data can be coded, converted to an electric signal, and then recorded to the recording media. A rearrangeable unused region of the recording media can be used as a work area for a file control work.
Claims12
An electronic still camera comprising:
- photographing means for photographing a photographed object and outputting image data;
- image data coding means for coding the image data;
- means for recording the coded image data to a recording medium;
- means for converting a sound to an electric signal;
- means for coding sound data converted to the electric signal;
- and
- means for recording the coded sound data to the recording medium;
- a rearrangeable unused region of the recording medium being used as a work area for a file control work.
An electronic camera as claimed in claim 22, wherein, when no internal data of the recording medium can be rearranged, such contents are alarmed.
An electronic camera comprising:
- an image pickup unit configured to photograph a photographed objected and to output image data;
- an image data coder configured to code the image data;
- a recording unit configured to record the coded image data to a recording medium;
- a sound converter configured to convert an input sound to an electric signal;
- a second coder configured to code the sound data converted to the electric signal;
- and
- wherein the recording unit further is configured to record the coded sound data to the recording medium;
- and
- wherein a rearrangeable unused region of the recording medium is used as a work area for a file control work.
A method of controlling an electronic camera comprising the steps of:
- photographing a photographed object and outputting image data;
- coding the image data;
- recording the coded image data to a recording medium;
- converting input sound data to an electric signal;
- coding the sound data converted to the electric signal;
- and
- recording the coded sound data to the recording medium;
- wherein a rearrangeable unused region of the recording medium is used as a work area for a file control work.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.