JPH10150641A - Image recorder - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image recorder enabling reproducing and enjoying by using a television receiver without a personal computer concerning image data photographed by a still image fetching device. SOLUTION: Image data taken by digital camera 1 as a still picture fetching device is fetched by each picture to be temporarily stored in a buffer memory 10 and converted into a video signal through a video encoder 11 to be outputted to the television receiver 4 from a video output terminal 12 through a cable 13. Data to store is selected while monitoring this data and written in CD-R 16. When reproducing, a pickup part 15 reads desired image data from in CD-R 16 to convert into a video signal through the encoder 11 to be outputted to the receiver 4 through the cable 13.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image recording apparatus which captures, records, and reproduces image data of a still image capturing apparatus. The present invention relates to an image recording apparatus capable of recording and reproducing using a receiver.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Digital cameras are based on the premise that captured image data is taken into a personal computer, and similarly, external recording devices for digital cameras are also assumed to be output to a personal computer. Also, even in the case of a digital camera with a video output terminal, the image data stored in the digital camera can only be played back on a television receiver, and the data once ejected from the digital camera is passed through a personal computer. Unless it can be shown on a TV set. Therefore, a personal computer is indispensable for a digital camera. However, in this case, if there is no personal computer, there is almost no room to use the digital camera even if only the digital camera is purchased, and the digital camera cannot be used for an application such as an electronic album.

[0003] In order to improve the convenience of a digital camera, an image recording apparatus capable of reproducing and viewing image data taken by a digital camera by using a television receiver without using a personal computer is provided. A technical problem to be solved arises, and an object of the present invention is to solve the problem.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been proposed in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, and captures image data of a still image capturing device for each screen, temporarily stores the image data in a buffer memory, and Write the image data to be saved among the image data in the buffer memory to an optical or magnetic recording unit,
It is still another object of the present invention to provide an image recording apparatus that reads image data of the buffer memory or image data of the optical or magnetic recording unit, converts the image data into a video signal, and outputs the video signal.

[0005]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.
Will be described in detail. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a digital camera as a still image capturing device. The digital camera 1 is provided with a digital output terminal 2 and a video output terminal 3. If the video output terminal 3 is connected to the video input terminal of the television receiver 4, the image data stored in the digital camera 1 can be reproduced on the television receiver 4.
However, since the memory capacity of the digital camera 1 itself is limited, the number of screens that can be viewed on the television receiver 4 by this method is limited.

Accordingly, the digital output terminal 2 of the digital camera 1 is connected to an input terminal 7 of an electronic album device 6 as an image recording device by a cable 5. The input terminal 7 is provided with at least three signal lines, one of which is a signal line for receiving image data stored as serial data in the digital camera 1, and One is a signal line for transmitting a control signal to the digital camera 1, and the other is a ground line. Also,
The electronic album device 6 is provided with operation keys 8.
When the operation key 8 is operated, the CPU 9 operates to control the following data capture, recording and reproduction.

That is, the CPU 9 is provided with the digital camera 1.
, The image data is fetched for each screen and stored in the buffer memory 10 as serial data. Then, the serial data is read from the buffer memory 10, converted into a video signal by the video encoder 11, and output to the video output terminal 12 of the electronic album device 6. The video output terminal 12 is connected to a video input terminal of the television receiver 4 via a cable 13. Thus, the image data in the buffer memory 10 is displayed on the television receiver 4 for each screen. At this time, the video output terminal 3 is connected to the video input terminal of the television receiver 4 in place of the video output terminal 12, and the image data stored in the digital camera 1 is directly transmitted to the television receiver 4 for each screen. It is good also to project to.

[0008] While monitoring the image, the user selects between the image to be saved and the image to be deleted, and operates the operation key 8 for instructing the image to be saved. CP that received this
U9 transfers the image data in the buffer memory 10 to the data processing unit 14 and encodes the data.
Is written to CD-R16. By repeating the above operation for each screen, a large number of image data shot by the digital camera 1 can be stored in the CD-R 16.

When viewing image data in the CD-R 16, target image data is designated by the operation keys 8. Based on this, the pickup section 15 reads the image data from the CD-R 16 and transfers it to the data processing section 17. The data processing unit 17 decodes the image data and transfers it to the video encoder 11. And
The image data is converted into a video signal by the video encoder 11 and output to the television receiver 4 via the cable 13. In this way, the image data is reproduced on the television receiver 4 and can be viewed.

The electronic album device 6 is also provided with an antenna output terminal 18.
And the antenna input terminal of the television receiver 4
Can also be connected. In that case, the image data converted to the video signal by the video encoder 11 is further converted to a television signal by the modulator 20,
It is output to the television receiver 4 via the cable 19.

The electronic album device 6 is also provided with a digital output terminal 21. Therefore, if the digital output terminal 21 is connected to the personal computer 22, the personal computer 2
2 can be configured as an electronic album. Also,
The electronic album device 6 can be used as a normal external recording device.

The present invention can be variously modified without departing from the spirit of the present invention, and the present invention naturally extends to the modified ones.

[0013]

As described above, according to the present invention, image data captured by a still image capturing device is captured, and the data to be stored is selected and recorded and stored while being monitored by a television receiver. I can put it. In addition, the stored image data can be read, reproduced on a television receiver, and viewed. Thus, even without a personal computer, an image recording device can be configured using a television receiver,
This improves the convenience of the still image capturing device.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an image recording apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Digital camera 4 Television receiver 6 Electronic album device 10 Buffer memory 11 Video encoder 16 CD-R 20 Modulator 22 Personal computer

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An image data of a still image capturing device is captured for each screen and temporarily stored in a buffer memory, and image data to be stored among the image data of the buffer memory is written to an optical or magnetic recording unit. An image recording apparatus which reads image data of the buffer memory or image data of the optical or magnetic recording unit, converts the read image data into a video signal, and outputs the video signal.