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US 8,942,765 B2Granted
Communication terminal device and recording medium
AssigneeNEC Casio Mobile Communications, Ltd.
InventorNozomu Shimoda
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Abstract
When a user performs a playback operation, an imaging unit starts taking images, and video data based on the image data obtained from that imaging is stored in a buffer of a memory unit. A control unit writes the video data stored in the buffer in a newly opened image file. When the capacity of the image file reaches a limit capacity, the control unit closes that image file and opens a new image file. The control unit also writes video data to the opened image file. The control unit creates information (image file information) for the generated image file and enters that information in an image management table. When a plurality of image files is generated, the control unit stores information indicating the playback order of the image files in the image management table.
Claims10
A communication terminal device, comprising:
- an imager for taking an image of an object;
- an e-mail transmitter/receiver for transmitting or receiving an e-mail;
- an operator for receiving operations from a user;
- a video data buffer for storing video data that is obtained as a result of taking images by the imager;
- a capacity limit information memory for storing capacity limit information wherein a maximum transmittable capacity when transmitting e-mail is set;
- a video data writer that, when the operator receives a video recording instruction operation from a user that initiates video recording, opens a first image file and copies video data from the video data buffer to the first image file for as long as the video recording takes place;
- an image memory for storing the first image file;
- an image file size monitor for monitoring, while the video recording is taking place, an amount of data of the first image file;
- a capacity determiner that determines, while the video recording is taking place, whether or not a size of the first image file has reached the maximum transmittable capacity, based on the monitoring results by the image file size monitor;
- and
- a first information generator that, when a plurality of image files are generated for one video, generates related image file information that stores information indicating the playback order of each of the image files, and stores the related image file information in the image memory,
- wherein, when the capacity determiner determines during the video recording that the first image file has reached the maximum transmittable capacity, the video data writer closes the first image file, opens a second image file, and then writes the video data that is stored in the video data storage to the second image file, and
- wherein information indicating a communication destination is further set in the capacity limit information, and a plurality of different capacity limit information for each communication destination is stored in the capacity limit information memory.
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A non-transitory recording medium that is readable by a computer whereon a program is recorded that causes a computer to execute steps of:
- starting imaging by an imager when an operator receives a video recording instruction from a user for initiating video recording;
- storing video data that is obtained as a result of imaging in a video data buffer;
- opening a first image file;
- copying video data that is stored in the video data buffer to the first image file for as long as the video recording takes place;
- monitoring, while the video recording is taking place, an amount of data of the first image file;
- determining, while the video recording is taking place, whether or not a size of the first image file has reached a maximum transmittable capacity when transmitting an e-mail, the maximum transmittable capacity being stored as a capacity limit information in a memory that stores information of at least one communication destination and a plurality of different capacity limit informations for each communication destination;
- while the video recording is taking place, closing the first image file and opening a second image file when it is determined during the video recording that the first image file has reached the maximum transmittable capacity, and writing video data that is stored in the video data buffer in the second image file;
- and
- generating related image file information, wherein information indicating the playback order of image files is stored, when a plurality of image files are generated for the video recording.
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A non-transitory recording medium that is readable by a computer, whereon a program is recorded that causes a computer to execute steps of:
- starting imaging by an imager when an operator receives a video recording instruction from a user that initiates video recording;
- storing video data that is obtained as a result of imaging in a video data buffer;
- opening a first image file, and while the first image file is open and for as long as the video recording takes place, performing the steps of:
- writing video data that is stored in the video data buffer to the open first image file;
- monitoring a total amount of data of the open first image file;
- determining whether or not a size of the first image file has reached a maximum transmittable capacity for transmitting an e-mail, the maximum transmittable capacity being stored as a capacity limit information in a memory that stores information of at least one communication destination and a plurality of different capacity limit informations for each communication destination, and in the event of a determination that the first image file has reached the maximum transmittable capacity, performing the sub-steps of
- closing the first image file, and
- opening a second image file in order to write thereto video data that is stored in the video data buffer and subsequent to the video data written to the first image file;
- and
- in the event that a plurality of image files are generated for the video, generating related image file information containing information indicating a playback order of said image files.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.