JPH07282077A - Electronic album device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make an electronic album device cheap and small and allow it to easily record, edit and reproduce photograph by executing arithmetic processing to information of an input picture, after then, compressing and recording it in a recording medium and displaying the information on a television monitor or transmitting it outside. CONSTITUTION:The device converts the optical signal of reflected light from the photograph 2 fetched to line CCD 5 into electric information and converts the electric information into a digital signal. Next, a picture processing part 8 executes shading correction, color correction and gamma correction so as to make the color of the photograph 2 and the color of a picture displayed on the monitor 11 coincident with each other, and executes processing converting data of R, G and B into data of Y, U and V, etc. And, a voice signal is inputted to a voice input terminal 30, and an A/D converter 17 converts the voice signal into a digital signal. Next, when this voice digital data is judged to be recorded in a disk, an encoder 18 compresses digital data from the A/D converter 17, and the disk 15 records compressed data.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic album device capable of converting image information such as photographs into a file and recording the file and searching the recorded file when necessary.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, a so-called file device is indispensable as a device for storing, storing, and retrieving information in an information processing system. This file device records and holds, for example, programs, numerical data, character data, image data, and the like. Further, the file device used in the information processing system is often connected to, for example, a computer device having a monitor device, and in this case, for example, in response to a user's search operation, information already filed is displayed on the monitor. It is displayed on the device.

Further, in the filing system including the file device and the monitor device as described above,
In order to enable high-speed access, the filing information is often recorded on a magnetic disk such as a so-called hard disk or a magneto-optical disk (MO disk).

[0004]

By the way, when files such as photographs are to be filed, it is general to use an image filing system constructed in combination with the above-mentioned computer equipment or a so-called photo album.

However, the above-mentioned image filing system using the computer equipment is constructed by combining the computer equipment and the peripheral equipment, so that the system is complicated, and for example, for the purpose of easily enjoying an image in a general home. Is not suitable for. Further, in an image filing system using a computer device, it is difficult to increase the capturing speed because it is affected by the data transfer speed.

[0006] In addition, although the above-mentioned photo album can easily file the photos at home, it is complicated to manage (organize) a plurality of photos in the album, and
For size, there are few photos that can be saved.

As described above, although there are currently image filing systems and photo albums using the above computer devices, they are integrated for the purpose of recording, editing, and reproducing photos for personal use in general households. There is no such system.

Therefore, in view of the above, the present invention records and edits photographs for personal use in general households.
An object is to provide an integrated electronic album device that can be played back.

[0009]

The electronic album device of the present invention is proposed in order to achieve the above-mentioned object, and an image input means for inputting an image, a voice input means for inputting a voice, An arithmetic means for performing a predetermined arithmetic processing on the input image information; an editing means for editing the image and the sound;
An image output unit that outputs image information, an audio output unit that outputs audio information, a compression unit that compresses image and audio information, a recording medium that records the compressed image and audio information, and an image. And a transmission means for transmitting voice information to the outside.

Here, the image input means inputs an image on photographic paper, a negative or positive film image, and image information from an electronic still camera. Also, the voice input means inputs voice information from an external input terminal or voice information from an electronic still camera.

The arithmetic means performs arithmetic processing for making the color of the photographic paper and the color of the display screen of the monitor device to which the image information from the image output means is supplied the same. The image output means outputs the image information to a high-precision television monitor and outputs the image information to a standard television monitor. The recording medium is a predetermined magneto-optical disk.

[0012]

According to the electronic album apparatus of the present invention, an image of a photograph, a negative, or a positive film is input from the image input means, information of the input image is subjected to a predetermined arithmetic processing, and then compressed and recorded on a recording medium. Record, display on television monitor, or transmit to outside. Since these are integrated, the cost is low and the configuration is small. Moreover, since a predetermined magneto-optical disk is used as the recording medium, a large capacity can be realized at low cost.

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows the configuration of an embodiment of the electronic album device of the present invention. Further, FIGS. 2, 3 and 4 show flowcharts of the operation of the electronic album device of FIG.

First, in the case of recording data on a recording medium called a so-called Mini Disc (hereinafter, simply referred to as a disc in this embodiment) which is a magneto-optical disc having a diameter of 64 mm, for example. The configuration and operation of the electronic album device of this embodiment shown in FIG. 1 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

First, in step S1, the CPU
The (central processing unit) 14 determines whether or not the photograph 2 is set by a sensor not shown in FIG. If it is determined in this step S1 that the photograph 2 has been set (YES), the process proceeds to step S2.

In step S2, the motor 3 for moving the photograph 2 is rotated. That is, when the motor 3 detects that the photo 2 has been set by the sensor, the motor 3 has the light source 1, the lens 4, and the line CCD (charge coupled device) on which the photo 2 is fixedly arranged.
It is provided to send to No. 5.

In the next step S3, the above step S2 is performed.
Simultaneously with the feeding of the photograph 2 in Fig. 2, the light from the light source 1 is applied to the photograph 2 and the reflected light from the photograph 2 is taken into the line CCD 5 via the lens 4.

In the next step S4, the line CCD is
The optical signal of the reflected light from the photograph 2 taken in 5 is converted into an electric signal.

In step S5, the electric signal from the line CCD 5 is sent to the analog / digital (A / D) converter 7, and the A / D converter 7 converts the electric signal into a digital signal.

Next, the digital signal from the A / D converter 7 is sent to the image processing section 8 which is a calculating means. In the image processing unit 8, the color of the photograph 2 and the monitor 1
In order to match the color of the image displayed in 1, the shading correction in step S6, the color correction in step S7, the gamma correction in step S8 are performed, and the R, G, B data is changed to the Y, U, V data. The processing of step S9 for converting into

The color correction in step S7 is expressed by the following equation.

R ′ = 0.460R + 0.421G + 0.041B G ′ = − 0.249R + 1.205G + 0.006B B ′ = − 0.218R + 0.071G + 1.195B where R ′, G ′, and B ′ are corrected R , G, B color data R, G, B are output data of the A / D converter 7. Monitor 11 is a so-called high-definition (high-precision) television monitor.

Then, in step S10, the data from the image processing unit 8 is stored in the memory 9.

After step S10, two processes are simultaneously performed. In one process, the process proceeds to step S14,
The data output from the memory 9 is converted into an analog signal (analog amount) by the digital / analog (D / A) converter 10. Then, in step S15, the analog signal is sent to the monitor 11 and displayed there. After that, the process ends.

In the other processing after step S10, the process proceeds to step S11. In step S11, it is determined whether or not the data on the memory 9 is to be recorded on the disk 15. As the disc, a magneto-optical disc (MO disc) other than the above MD or a magnetic disc such as a hard disc can be used, but a compact and inexpensive MD disc having a large recording capacity can be used. preferable. The specific configuration of the recording / reproducing means for the disc 15 will be described later.

In step S11, the disk 1
If it is determined not to record in No. 5 (No), the determination in step S11 is repeated, and if it is determined to record in the disc 15 (Yes), the process proceeds to step S12.

In step S12, the data from the memory 9 is sent to the encoder 12, and the encoder 1
Compressed at 2. The compressed data is processed in step S
It is recorded on the disk 15 at 13. After that, the process ends. As the above-mentioned compression, for example, compression encoding using an algorithm of a so-called JPEG (Joint Picture Expert Group) system which is an international standardization work group of the color still image encoding system can be cited as an example. Therefore, as a specific configuration of the compression unit of the encoder 12, an orthogonal transform circuit that performs a discrete cosine transform (DCT) on image data, and a quantizer that quantizes a DCT coefficient by the discrete cosine transform. , An encoder for performing entropy coding such as Huffman coding on the quantized output. Note that arithmetic coding may be used as the entropy coding.
The encoder 12 outputs data in which header information is added to the image data compressed by the compression process, and this data is recorded on the disc 15.

The above-described configuration and processing flow is based on the line CC.
Regarding the image signal of the photograph 2 taken in from D5, the electronic album device of this embodiment can also record audio on the disc 15.

The configuration and the flow of processing when recording the above-mentioned sound on the disk 15 will be described below with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. 1 and 3.

First, step S in the flowchart of FIG.
At 21, a voice signal is input to the voice input terminal 30.
This input voice signal is
The digital signal (digital amount) is converted by the A / D converter 17.

Next, in step S23, it is determined whether or not the digital audio data is to be recorded on the disk 15. If it is determined in step S23 that the digital audio data is not recorded in the disk 15 (NO), the process in step S23 is repeated. If it is determined that the audio digital data is recorded (YES), step S2 is performed.
Go to 4.

In step S24, the encoder 18 compresses the digital data from the A / D converter 17. In the next step S25, the compressed data is recorded on the disc 15. For example, the following can be used as the compression of the voice. For example, the encoder 18 divides a speech signal or the like into a plurality of frequency bands so that the bandwidth becomes wider as the frequency band becomes higher, and the signal in each frequency band is subjected to discrete cosine transform ( DCT) processing is performed, and the obtained coefficient data is further divided for each critical band considering human auditory characteristics, and compression coding is performed for each critical band by adaptive bit allocation considering a so-called masking effect. So-called ATRAC (Adaptive TRansform A
The audio signal may be compressed by a compression coding method called a coustic Coding method. As a configuration for performing compression coding in consideration of the human auditory characteristics, a filter means for dividing an input voice signal into a rough frequency band in consideration of a sea band, and an output of this filter means for every predetermined block unit Orthogonal transforming means for DCT transforming, adaptive bit assigning means using the output of the orthogonal transforming means to obtain adaptive bit assigning information in consideration of the masking effect in a critical bandwidth corresponding to human auditory characteristics, and It is possible to use a unit including an encoding unit that encodes the output of the orthogonal transform unit based on the bit allocation information obtained by the adaptive bit allocation unit. Further, in the above audio compression, for example, an audio signal is multiplied by 640 in the standard mode and 12 in the long mode.
It is also possible to compress the time 80 times. As the time compression, specifically, a memory such as a RAM is provided, and the time compression can be realized by changing the writing / reading speed of the memory.

Next, the configuration and the flow of processing when reproducing the recorded image and audio data from the disk 15 will be described with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. 1 and 4.

First, step S in the flowchart of FIG.
At 31, it is determined whether or not to read data from the disk 15. If it is determined in step S31 that the data is not read (NO), the process in step S31 is repeated, and if it is determined that the data is read (YES), the process proceeds to step S32.

In step S32, the data is read from the disk 15. Next, in step S33,
The image data of the data read from the disk 15 is sent to the decoder 16 and the audio data is sent to the decoder 19. If the data read from the disk 15 is only image data, only the processing after the image data decoder 16 is performed, and if the data is only audio data, the audio data decoder 19 is used. Only the subsequent processing is performed. The image data decoder 16 performs a decoding process corresponding to the encoding in the image data encoder 12, that is, a decompression process of compressed image data, and the audio data decoder. In 19, the decoding process corresponding to the encoding in the audio data encoder 18 is performed, that is, the compressed audio data is expanded.

The image data decompressed by the decoder 16 after the decoding process in step S33 is
It is stored in the memory 9 in step S34. Subsequent processing proceeds to step S35. This step S
At 35, the image data is converted into an analog signal (analog amount) by the D / A converter 10.

The audio data decompressed by the decoder 19 after the decoding process in step S33 is sent to the D / A converter 20, and in the same manner as the image data, an analog signal is output in step S35. (Analog amount)
Is converted to.

After step S35, the image signal converted into the analog amount is displayed on the monitor 11 in step S36. The audio signal converted into the analog amount is sent to the audio output unit of the monitor 11, for example, a speaker and output as audio in step S37, or is output from the audio output terminal 32.

Here, each of the components such as the encoders 12 and 18, the decoders 16 and 19, the motor 3, and the line CCD 5 is controlled by a CPU (central processing unit) 14. The line CCD 5 is the CPU 1
It is driven by a CCD driver 6 controlled by 4.

Although not described in the flow charts of FIGS. 2 to 4, the CPU 14 is also used for image editing and the like in addition to the control of each of the above-mentioned components. For example, the user edits the image using the input means such as the mouse 21. In addition to the mouse, the input means may be, for example, various keys, a touch panel, a pen input, or the like.

Further, the image or audio data recorded or reproduced on the disk 15 can be communicated to the outside via the transmission section 13 and the terminal 31. For example, it is possible to communicate image signals and audio signals from CCD cameras (electronic still cameras), video cameras, video tape recorders, and video discs.

It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, but may be modified, for example, by replacing the line CCD 5 with another image pickup device.

Next, the specific structure of the recording / reproducing means for the disk 15 will be described. The illustration is omitted. That is, in the recording / reproducing means of the disk 15, the signal from the disk 15 is read by the optical pickup, and the rotation of the spindle motor and the attitude of the optical pickup are controlled based on the signal, so that the disk 15 is reproduced. The laser light is made to follow the upper track at a constant speed. At this time, the recording / reproducing means
The compressed data or uncompressed binary data is recorded on the disk 15 by simultaneously controlling the optical pickup including a laser diode and a photodetector and the magnetic field modulation coil which is a magnetic field generator. In general, when recording on a magneto-optical disc, an optical modulation method that applies a DC signal to the magnetic field generator and a modulation signal to the optical pickup, and a control method that applies a modulation signal to the magnetic field generator and the optical pickup Although there is a magnetic field modulation system that gives a DC signal (makes the laser power constant), this embodiment employs the magnetic field modulation system. Further, the modulated signal sent to the magnetic field generator is added with an error correction code to the compressed data or the uncompressed binary data, and further, for example, EFM (8
-14 modulation). Therefore, disk 1
When reproducing from No. 5, EFM demodulation and error correction processing are performed.

More specifically, the recording / reproducing means has a movable portion composed of a biaxial actuator, a spindle motor, a sled motor, etc. The biaxial actuator makes the objective lens of the optical pickup perpendicular to the disk 15. It consists of a focusing coil that moves and a tracking coil that moves in the radial direction of the disk 15. Also,
The optical pickup unit is composed of a laser diode which is a laser oscillator, an optical component such as a collimator lens, an objective lens, a polarization beam splitter, and a cylindrical lens, and a photodetector which is a light receiving element having a light receiving unit of a predetermined pattern. The laser light from the laser diode is used to read the magnetization direction of the disk 15 at the time of reading and for servo, and at the time of recording to record the data on the disk 15 by magnetic field modulation to record the temperature of the recording surface of the disk 15. Is used to raise above the Curie point and for servo. The photodetector is used to detect the tracking, focus servo, and the magnetization direction of the signal recorded on the disk 15 by receiving the laser light reflected from the disk 15. Further, the magnetic field modulation coil provided for performing magnetic field modulation is used to magnetically modulate and record the EFM signal on the disk 15 in which the temperature of the recording surface is raised to the Curie point or higher by the laser light.

Next, FIGS. 5 and 6 show the appearance of the electronic album device of this embodiment. FIG. 5 shows the appearance as seen from the front side, and FIG. 6 shows the appearance as seen from the back side. That is, as shown in FIG. 5, the electronic album device of this embodiment has a main power switch 44, a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel 41, and a disc insertion hole 4 on the front surface of the housing 40.
2. A photo insertion hole 43 is arranged, and a connection terminal for the mouse 21 is also provided. Further, as shown in FIG. 6, in the electronic album device of the present embodiment, a video main terminal 49, a video input terminal terminal 46, an optical input terminal 47, an audio input terminal 48, and external communication are provided on the back surface of the housing 40. Terminal 52,
A reset switch 51, a high-definition television signal output terminal 50 are arranged, and a power cord 45 is further arranged.

By the way, in the electronic album apparatus of this embodiment, a menu or the like is displayed on the monitor 11, and the recording, reproduction and editing operations are performed according to the display. The flow of the operation will be described below with reference to FIGS. 7 to 10. 7 and 8 show the display on the monitor 11 according to the operation flow at the time of recording, and FIGS. 9 and 10 show the monitor 1 along the operation flow at the time of reproduction.
The display above 1 is shown.

First, the flow of operations during recording shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 will be described. In the operation at the time of this recording, the video 10 such as a title initially set by the user is displayed on the display screen of the monitor 11 when the power is first turned on or the disc is inserted.
0 is displayed. When this image 100 is displayed,
For example, the display position (display coordinate position) by the mouse 21 or the like
Is controlled by the cursor 200, the video 100
For example, when an instruction of a display area “execution” is given, the basic image 101 is displayed on the display screen of the monitor 11.

When this image 101 is displayed,
The operation is selected from reproduction, recording, and editing.
In the recording operation, the cursor 200 is used to instruct the "record" display area. When the “record” instruction is given, the image 102 is displayed on the display screen of the monitor 11.

When this image 102 is displayed,
Select either photo or audio recording operation. For example, with the cursor 200, “1. photograph” is displayed.
When the display area is designated, the video 103 is displayed on the display screen of the monitor 11. On the other hand, the cursor 20
When the display area of “2. audio” is designated by 0, the video 108 is displayed on the display screen of the monitor 11.

[1. Photo] with the cursor 200
When the display area is designated, the image 103 displays, for example, "Please set a picture". Here, for example, when the photograph 2 is inserted into the photograph insertion hole 43, the image of the photograph 2 is captured as described above,
The captured image of the photograph 2 is displayed as a video 104 on the display screen of the monitor 11.

When this image 104 is displayed,
When the display area of “record” is designated by the cursor 200, the image 105 is displayed on the display screen of the monitor 11. When the image 105 is displayed, the recording mode is selected. For example, when the display area of “1. NORMAL MODE” is designated by the cursor 200, the image 106 of FIG. 8 is displayed on the display screen of the monitor 11. In addition, when the display area of “1. NORMAL MODE” is designated in this video 105, the image of Photo 2 is recorded with normal fine precision, and “2.
When the display area of "FINE MODE" is specified, the image of Photo 2 is recorded with high precision and "3. ECONOMY MO" is displayed.
When the display area of "DE" is designated, the image quality is slightly degraded, but more images are recorded.

In this video 106, a folder index indicating a file for saving a picture, that is, a folder (holder) is displayed. Here, the cursor 200
When an arbitrary folder index is designated by, an image 107 is displayed on the display screen of the monitor 11.

When the image 107 is displayed, the title is input. That is, the title is input by arbitrarily pointing each key of the keyboard displayed as the image 107 with the cursor 200. When the input of this title is completed, the image on the display screen of the monitor 11 returns to the image 103 in FIG. 7.

On the other hand, the image 1 is displayed on the display screen of the monitor 11.
When 02 is displayed, the display area of “2.
On the display screen No. 1, a player's operation panel, for example, is displayed like a video 108. When the video 108 is displayed, the cursor 200 is used to instruct various switches such as recording and reproduction. At the time of recording as in the example of FIG. 7, the displayed “record” switch is moved to the cursor 2
00, an image 10 is displayed on the monitor 11 display screen.
9 will be displayed.

When the video 109 is displayed, the title is input. That is, the title is input by arbitrarily pointing each key of the keyboard displayed as the image 109 with the cursor 200. When the input of this title is completed, the video on the display screen of the monitor 11 returns to the video 108.

Next, the flow of operations during reproduction shown in FIGS. 9 and 10 will be described. In the operation during this playback,
When the power is first turned on or the disc is inserted, the display screen of the monitor 11 displays an image 100 such as a title initially set by the user as in the recording. When this video 100 is displayed, if the cursor 200 is used to instruct a display area such as “execution” in the video 100, the same basic screen as the video 101 of FIG. 7 is displayed on the display screen of the monitor 11. Will be displayed.

During reproduction, when the video 101 is displayed, the cursor 200 is used to instruct the "reproduction" display area. When the “playback” instruction is given, the video 112 is displayed on the display screen of the monitor 11. When the "edit" instruction is given, for example, the order of already recorded images, the contents of folders, and the like, and further the recorded image itself can be edited.

When this image 112 is displayed,
Select whether to play back a photo or sound, or to play back a photo and sound. For example, when the cursor 200 indicates the display area of "1. Photo reproduction", the video 113 is displayed on the display screen of the monitor 11. On the other hand, the cursor 200 causes “2.
When the display area of “play music” is instructed, the video 116 is displayed on the display screen of the monitor 11, and “3.
When you instruct the display area of "Play photo + music", monitor 1
The image 117 of FIG. 10 is displayed on the display screen of No. 1.

A folder index is displayed in the image 113 when the display area of "1. Photo reproduction" is designated by the cursor 200. If an arbitrary folder index is designated by the cursor 200 while the video 113 is displayed, the screen index is displayed on the display screen of the monitor 11 like the video 114. That is, as the image 114, reduced images of a plurality of photos stored in the designated folder index are displayed.

When this image 114 is displayed,
When the display area of the monitor 11 is selected and designated by the cursor 200, an enlarged video 115 of the selected image is displayed on the display screen of the monitor 11.

On the other hand, when the cursor 200 indicates the display area of "2. Play music" while the video 112 is displayed, the operation panel of the player is displayed like the video 116. If the reproduction switch is instructed by the cursor 200 while the image 116 is being displayed, the previously recorded sound is output.

Furthermore, when the cursor 200 indicates the display area of "3. Photo + Music playback" while the video 112 is displayed, a video 117 as shown in FIG. 10 is displayed. When the image 117 is displayed, BGM (background music) is selected. When this video 117 is displayed, a folder index is displayed like a video 118 on the display screen of the monitor 11 after selecting and instructing an arbitrary BGM with the cursor 200. This video 1
When 18 is displayed, if an arbitrary folder index is designated by the cursor 200, a plurality of photos stored in the designated folder index like the video 119 are sequentially displayed on the display screen of the monitor 11. Will be displayed. Further, at this time, the reproduction of the BGM selected while the image 117 is displayed is started. However, when the sound is recorded on the disk 15, the reproduction of the BGM is interrupted and the sound is reproduced.

When each image of FIGS. 7 to 10 is displayed, if the cursor 200 indicates the "cancel" display area, for example, the previous image is restored. When the cursor 200 indicates the "basic" display area, the screen returns to the basic image 101.

As described above, according to the electronic album device of the embodiment of the present invention, the following effects can be obtained.

Compared with the conventional image filing apparatus,
Since the system is integrated, images can be handled easily, and it can be expected as a home image filing device. Since MD is used as the recording medium, a large amount of data can be stored at low cost. It is also easy to edit and can handle voice.

Further, by adopting a system dedicated to the electronic album, the import speed can be improved.

[0067]

According to the electronic album device of the present invention,
An image of a photograph, a negative, or a positive film is input from the image input means, information of this input image is subjected to predetermined arithmetic processing, and then compressed and recorded on a recording medium, displayed on a television monitor, or transmitted to the outside. Since these are integrated, compared to the conventional image filing device, the cost can be reduced, the size can be reduced, and the images can be easily handled. Thus, it becomes possible to easily record, edit, and reproduce the photograph.

Further, since a predetermined magneto-optical disk is used as the recording medium, a large capacity can be realized at low cost, editing is easy, and audio can be handled. Further, by adopting a system dedicated to the electronic album, the import speed can be improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block circuit diagram showing a schematic configuration of an electronic album device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a flow of processing when recording an image on a disc.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the flow of processing when recording audio on a disc.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the flow of processing when reading video and audio from a disc.

FIG. 5 is a schematic external perspective view of the electronic album device according to the present embodiment as viewed from the front side.

FIG. 6 is a schematic external perspective view of the electronic album device according to the present embodiment viewed from the back side.

FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining a part of the flow of video on the display screen of the monitor when recording is performed in the electronic album device of the present embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a diagram for explaining the rest of the flow of video on the display screen of the monitor when recording is performed in the electronic album device of the present embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a diagram for explaining a part of the flow of video on the display screen of the monitor when reproduction is performed in the electronic album device according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a diagram for explaining the remaining part of the flow of video on the display screen of the monitor when reproduction is performed in the electronic album device according to the present embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Light Source 2 Photograph 3 Motor 4 Lens 5 Line CCD 6 CCD Driver 7, 17 A / D Converter 8 Image Processing Section 9 Memory 10, 20 D / A Converter 11 Monitor 12, 18 Encoder 13 Transmission Section 14 CPU 15 Disk 16, 19 Decoder 21 Mouse

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The arithmetic means performs arithmetic processing to make the color of the printing paper and the color of the display screen of the monitor device to which the image information from the image output means is supplied the same. The image output means outputs the image information to a high-precision television monitor or outputs the image information to a standard television monitor. The recording medium is a predetermined magneto-optical disk.

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In step S12, the memory 9
Data is sent to the encoder 12 and compressed by the encoder 12. The compressed data is recorded on the disk 15 in step S13. After that, the process ends. The compression is performed by, for example, a so-called JPEG (Joint Picture Exp), which is an international standardization work group of the color still image coding method.
For example, compression encoding using an algorithm of the ertGroup) system or the like can be given. Therefore, as a specific configuration of the compression unit of the encoder 12, an orthogonal transform circuit that performs a discrete cosine transform (DCT) on image data, and a quantizer that quantizes a DCT coefficient by the discrete cosine transform. , An encoder for performing entropy coding such as Huffman coding on the quantized output. Note that arithmetic coding may be used as the entropy coding. The encoder 12 outputs data in which header information is added to the image data compressed by the compression process, and this data is recorded on the disc 15.

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Next, FIGS. 5 and 6 show the appearance of the electronic album device of this embodiment. FIG. 5 shows the appearance as seen from the front side, and FIG. 6 shows the appearance as seen from the back side. That is, as shown in FIG. 5, the electronic album device of this embodiment has a main power switch 44, a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel 41, and a disc insertion hole 4 on the front surface of the housing 40.
2. A photo insertion hole 43 is arranged, and a connection terminal for the mouse 21 is also provided. Further, as shown in FIG. 6, in the electronic album device of this embodiment, a video output terminal 49, a video input terminal 46, an optical input terminal 47, an audio input terminal 48, and an external communication terminal are provided on the back surface of the housing 40. 52, a reset switch 51, a high definition television signal output terminal 50, and a power cord 45.

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Further, since a predetermined magneto-optical disk is used as the recording medium, a large capacity can be realized at low cost, editing is easy, and voice can be handled. Further, by adopting a system dedicated to the electronic album, the import speed can be improved.

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[Claims] 1. An image input unit for inputting an image, a voice input unit for inputting a voice, a calculation unit for performing a predetermined calculation process on information of the input image, and an editing unit for editing the image and the voice. An image output unit that outputs image information, an audio output unit that outputs audio information, a compression unit that compresses image and audio information, a recording medium that records the compressed image and audio information, and an image. An electronic album device, comprising: a transmission unit for transmitting audio information to the outside. 2. The electronic album apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image input means inputs an image on photographic paper. 3. The electronic album apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image input means inputs a negative or positive film image. 4. The electronic album apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image input means inputs image information from an electronic still camera. 5. The electronic album apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the voice input means inputs voice information from an external input terminal. 6. The electronic album apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the audio input means inputs audio information from an electronic still camera. 7. The arithmetic means performs arithmetic processing for making the color of the photographic paper and the color of the display screen of the monitor device to which the image information from the image output means is supplied the same. The electronic album device according to claim 1. 8. The electronic album apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image output means outputs the information of the image to a high-precision television monitor. 9. The electronic album apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image output means outputs the image information to a standard television monitor. 10. The electronic album apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the recording medium is a predetermined magneto-optical disk.