Optical recording apparatus, optical recording method, and digital still camera
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsChisato Yoshida, Hiroshi Maeda
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Abstract
A digital still camera includes a vibration detector for detecting vibrations. In accordance with certain conditions, a control unit controls finalization (session closing) which enables a CD-ROM drive to read data recorded on a recording medium. The control of session closing includes starting session closing after a predetermined period of time elapses since the selection of the execution of session closing. The countdown id displayed to indicate the time remaining before the start of session closing. After the countdown is completed, or when the vibration detector detects vibrations during the countdown until the start of session closing, session closing is not started.
Claims9
A portable recording apparatus for recording data onto an optical recording medium by optical recording, comprising:
- an optical pickup unit configured to write said data onto the optical recording medium;
- a vibration detector configured to detect, at all times, a vibration applied to said portable apparatus;
- a controller configured to control a finalize process for enabling another reading apparatus to read said written data on the optical recording medium;
- an input unit configured to instruct the controller to perform said finalize process based on a finalize-process instruction from a user, wherein the finalize-process instruction initiates a start of a repeatable predetermined time period;
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- a display to notify the user of predetermined information,
- wherein said controller notifies said user of said predetermined information, by said display, to request said user to keep said portable recording apparatus stable during said finalize process;
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- said controller starts writing data that relates to said finalize process onto said medium by said optical pickup unit only when no vibration is detected by the vibration detector during the repeatable predetermined time period that starts after reception of the finalize-process instruction from the user to perform said finalize process.
A method for recording data onto an optical recording medium by optical recording, comprising:
- writing said data onto the optical recording medium;
- instructing a control means to perform a finalize process for enabling another reading apparatus to read said written data on the optical recording medium based on a finalize-process instruction from a user, wherein the finalize-process instruction initiates a start of a repeatable predetermined time period;
- notifying the user of predetermined information to request the user to keep said portable recording apparatus stable during said finalize process;
- detecting, at all times, a vibration applied to said portable apparatus;
- controlling the finalize process;
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- initiating writing of data that relates to said finalize process onto said medium only if no vibration is detecting during the repeatable predetermined time period that starts after reception of the finalize-process instruction from the user to perform said finalize process.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.