Digital camera
AssigneeFuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
InventorTakeshi Misawa
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Abstract
On the external packing film 124 of the memory card insertion section vicinity of the bottom surface of the digital camera 100, the ROM chip and the print wiring 131 are surface-mounted, and one end of the print wiring 131 is connected to the ROM chip 130, and the other end is connected to the external connecting terminal 132 provided on the bottom surface of the digital camera 100. The identifying information in the ROM chip 130 is read out at the time of the operation of the digital camera 100, and is collated with the identifying information inside the camera, and when it can not be collated or it is not coincident, the power source of the camera is compulsively turned off.
Claims8
A digital camera comprising a removable recording medium for recording a picked up image information, further comprising:
- a ROM connected to an external connecting terminal of the digital camera and storing first identifying information;
- an identifying information memory section which is provided inside of the digital camera and storing second identifying information;
- a collating section for collating the first identifying information with the second identifying information;
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- an operation limiting section compulsorily stopping operation of the digital camera in a case a collating result by the collating section is not coincident with each other, and
- wherein the ROM is arranged in a condition that the connection to the external connecting terminal is broken in a case the removable recording medium is taken out.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.