JP2000032311A - Video camera - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a video camera which can write character title information obtd. by automatically converting from a voice in addition to video information and can be easily used. SOLUTION: This video camera is provided with a means 121 for photographing a video, a means 110 for converting a voice to characters and a means 124 for synthesizing the converted characters with the video, and the video information and title characters are recorded or displayed. Thus, the character information obtd. from a voice can be automatically displayed and recorded without setting the title characters one by one by a user and this video camera can be easily used by anybody so that it has the effect of extremely improved operability.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a video camera capable of simultaneously displaying an image shot by a video camera and a title character by audio and simultaneously recording the title on a recording medium.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An image taken by a video camera includes a character date and time, a character title temporarily set by a user,
In addition, fixed images or characters previously recorded in a built-in memory can be recorded, but in each case, there is only a method of setting characters by a user.

As a video camera capable of synthesizing a title with a video, there is a method described in JP-A-7-177460, but it is merely a means for reading information from a built-in memory.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, a user does not need to use a preset character title.
Title characters converted by voice recognition can be recorded simultaneously with the video information of the camera.

[0005]

An apparatus for synthesizing a character title with a shot image in a video camera and recording the same is widely known. In this method, fixed characters are read from a built-in memory in advance, combined with a captured image, displayed on a liquid crystal display device, and recorded on a recording medium.

According to the present invention, a character title can be recorded simultaneously with video information of a camera by mounting or connecting a device for converting voice into text by voice recognition and synthesizing the text and a shot image to a video camera. Things.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, an embodiment of a video camera according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a video camera apparatus. The voice / character conversion means 110 has a voice recognition unit 112 and a character conversion processing unit 113, and a microphone 111
Converts the voice input from the device into character information and synthesizes it
24. Further, the image information is recorded on the recording medium 150 together with the image information from the camera section 121 and the signal processing section 122 which are the image information means 120 and the character information. At the same time, the image is displayed on the liquid crystal monitor 131 by the display processing unit 132 as the display unit 130. Here, the recording medium 150 is a magnetic tape or an optical disk.

FIG. 2 shows a display example of a liquid crystal monitor display screen 200 of a video camera according to the present invention, and a display example 201 shows an example of a character information title of the present invention. A display example 202 is a display example showing the date and time conventionally realized.

[0010]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the video camera of the present invention, the character information can be automatically displayed and recorded by voice without the user having to set the title character each time. Since anyone can use it easily, there is an effect that operability can be extremely improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a video camera of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a display example of a monitor display screen of the video camera of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

110: voice / character conversion means, 111: microphone, 112
... voice recognition unit, 113 ... character conversion processing unit, 120 ... video information means, 121 ... camera unit, 122 ... signal processing unit, 1
23 control unit, 124 synthesis processing unit, 130 display means, 131 liquid crystal monitor, 132 display processing unit, 15
0: recording medium, 200: liquid crystal display screen, 201: title character display example, 202: date and time display example.

 ────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Toru Kanazawa 1410 Inada, Hitachinaka-shi, Ibaraki F-term in AV Division, Hitachi, Ltd. 5C022 AA11 AB68 AC01 AC03 AC13 AC69 AC72 AC79 5C053 FA21 FA30 GB12 JA16 KA24 LA01 LA06

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A camera unit for photographing a subject and outputting a video signal, a voice character conversion unit for converting input voice to text, a video signal output from the camera unit and a video signal output from the voice text conversion unit. A video camera, comprising: a synthesis processing unit for synthesizing text information. 2. The video camera according to claim 1, further comprising display means for displaying a signal output from the synthesis processing unit. 3. The video camera according to claim 1, further comprising recording means for recording a signal output from the synthesis processing unit.