JP2003298928A - Camera incorporated recording apparatus with monitor - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a camera incorporated recording apparatus having a moni tor capable of easily performing automatic focus control and automatic exposure control as desired by a photographer even when an object is located at any place on a monitor screen. <P>SOLUTION: The camera incorporated recording apparatus having a monitor provided with: a camera section including an imaging mean for imaging an object; a monitor section including the monitor screen on which a video image photographed by the camera section is displayed; and a recording section for recording the video signal captured from the camera section on a recording medium, is characterized in that the camera incorporated recording apparatus includes: an entry pen for designating an optional position coordinate on the monitor screen; a detection means for detecting the position coordinate designated by the entry pen; an extract means for extracting the video signal corresponding to an image area particularized by the entry pen; and an imaging control means for controlling the imaging means on the basis of the extracted video signal. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a camera section having a camera lens for photographing an object, a monitor section having a monitor screen for displaying an image photographed by the camera section, and an image captured by the camera section. The present invention relates to a camera-integrated recording device with a monitor, which includes a recording unit that records a signal.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional camera-integrated recording device with a monitor (for example, a monitor-integrated camera VTR) of this type will be described with reference to FIGS.

A conventional camera-integrated VTR with a monitor is
As shown in FIGS. 12 and 13, a camera unit 1 for photographing a subject, a monitor unit 2 for displaying an image photographed by the camera unit, and a VTR unit for recording a video signal taken in by the camera unit 1. 3 and a connecting portion 4 for connecting the camera portion 1 and the monitor portion 2 so as to be rotatable with respect to each other.

In the above structure, the camera section 1 includes a camera lens 5 and an image pickup circuit 6 for converting an optical image of a subject formed by the camera lens 5 into a video signal. The monitor unit 2 includes a monitor screen 7 including a liquid crystal panel that displays a photographed subject, a display drive circuit 8 that drives the monitor screen 7, an image displayed on the monitor screen 7, or a magnetic tape of the VTR unit 3. It includes a superimpose control circuit 9 for superimposing a date display, an operation display, a warning display, etc. on the video recorded in the above, and a microcomputer 10 for controlling the entire apparatus.

Further, the connecting portion 4 has a built-in rotation angle detecting switch 11 for detecting the relative rotation angle between the camera portion 1 and the monitor portion 2, and the camera lens 5 and the monitor screen 7 are oriented toward the same subject. When the rotation angle switch 11
Outputs a face-to-face shooting mode signal indicating that the face-to-face shooting is performed from the microcomputer 10. Then, the microcomputer 10 instructs the display drive circuit 8 to display, on the monitor screen 7, a video image captured by the camera unit 1 as a mirror image which is horizontally inverted based on the face-to-face photography mode signal.

On the other hand, a magnetic recording / reproducing system in the VTR unit 3, for example, a magnetic recording / reproducing system in an 8 mm video tape recorder will be described with reference to FIGS. 14 and 15.
, The magnetic tape 24 is attached to the rotating body 23 in which the magnetic heads 21 and 22 are attached at equal angular intervals of 180 °.
Are wound at a winding angle of 221 ° to form adjacent tracks that are inclined with respect to the longitudinal direction of the magnetic tape 24. Here, in the area corresponding to the winding angle of 180 ° (1ch track) of the magnetic tape 24, the audio FM signal AFM and the tracking control signal are frequency-multiplexed and recorded together with the luminance signal Y and the color signal C, and the remaining about 30 °. In the corresponding area (2ch track), a PCM (pulse code modulation) audio signal is recorded together with the tracking control signal.

Furthermore, when converting an optical image obtained from the camera unit 1 into an electric image signal, the focus degree and the exposure degree of the optical system can be known from the image signal, so that a partial area of the image pickup screen is displayed. It takes out the video signal and performs automatic focusing control (auto focus) and automatic exposure control. Various methods have been proposed for automatic exposure control. For example, a photometric method that partially weights the photometric sensitivity distribution,
There are an average metering method that averages the light over the entire field of view, center-weighted average metering, center partial metering, center spot metering, and the like.

These are added after appropriately weighting outputs from a plurality of photometric light-receiving elements having a small light-receiving area, and exposure control (aperture setting, shutter speed setting, etc.) is performed using the added signal. It is a thing. Further, there is also proposed that the photometric method is selected by changing the method of weighting the output of the light receiving element.

[0009]

In the above-mentioned conventional camera-integrated VTR with monitor, the fixed character stored in the text memory in the superimpose control circuit 9 is read out and displayed on the monitor screen 7. Alternatively, although it can be recorded on the magnetic tape 24 of the VTR unit 3, the user can easily create an arbitrary character,
Displayed on monitor screen 7 or magnetic tape 2 of VTR unit 3
It cannot be recorded in 4. For this reason, for example, it is impossible to record characters, characters, etc. that the user likes, such as a title, and there is a problem in that the degree of freedom in using the VTR with a camera and a monitor is limited.

Moreover, the conventional camera-integrated V
In TR, the character signal is superimposed on the video signal and recorded on the magnetic tape 24. Therefore, once recorded, it is impossible to erase or rewrite only the character signal.

A conventional camera-integrated VT with monitor
In R, the area for automatic focusing control and automatic exposure control is
Although it is set centering on the center part of the monitor screen, it is impossible to accurately reflect the photographer's intention of drawing on the captured image when it is desired to arrange the target subject in the corner of the screen. There was a problem.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and provides automatic focusing control and automatic exposure control according to the imaging intention of the photographer regardless of where the target subject is located on the monitor screen. An object is to provide a camera-integrated recording device with a monitor that can be easily performed.

[0013]

A camera-integrated recording device with a monitor according to the present invention is a monitor having a camera section having an image pickup means for photographing a subject and a monitor screen for displaying an image photographed by the camera section. In a camera-integrated recording device with a monitor including a recording section and a recording section for recording a video signal taken in from the camera section on a recording medium, an input pen for designating arbitrary position coordinates on a monitor screen in the monitor section. A detecting means for detecting a coordinate position designated by the input pen on the monitor screen; an extracting means for extracting a video signal corresponding to a screen area specified by the coordinate position designated by the input pen; Image pickup control means for controlling the image pickup means in the camera section based on the video signal extracted by the means.

Further, the image pickup control means performs automatic focusing control in the camera section on the basis of the video signal extracted by the extraction means, or the image pickup control means is extracted by the extraction means. It is characterized in that automatic exposure control in the camera section is performed based on the image signal thus generated.

[0015]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION A camera-integrated recording device according to the present invention (for example, a monitor-integrated camera VT is described below).
A first embodiment of R) will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 9, but the same parts as those of the above-described conventional example are designated by the same reference numerals,
The description is omitted.

The camera-integrated VT of the present embodiment
As shown in FIG. 1, R is a camera unit 1 for photographing a subject.
A monitor unit 2 for displaying a video image taken by the camera unit 1, a VTR unit 3 for recording a video signal taken in from the camera unit 1, and the camera unit 1 and the monitor unit 2 for mutual rotation. An input pen 25 is provided in addition to the connecting portion 4 that is movably connected.

As shown in FIG. 2, the liquid crystal panel 17 of the monitor section 2 includes a polarizing plate 31, an upper glass substrate 32, and a transparent electrode 3.
An AC power supply 39 is connected to a transparent electrode 33 provided on the liquid crystal layer 34 side of a conventional liquid crystal panel 7 including a liquid crystal layer 34, a transparent electrode 35, a lower glass substrate 36, a polarizing plate 37, and a reflector 38. .

Further, FIG. 3 is an equivalent circuit diagram of FIG. 2 showing the principle of detecting the coordinate position in the liquid crystal panel 17 of the monitor unit 2 of the present embodiment, where the voltage of the AC power supply 39 is y. Reference numeral 40 denotes a coupling capacitance between the input pen 25 and the transparent electrode 33 in FIG. 2, which includes the capacitance between the polarizing plate 31 and the upper glass substrate 32, and its value is designated as c. Let R be the resistance between the portion a of the transparent electrode 33 to which the AC power supply 39 is connected and the end of the transparent electrode 33, and be closest to the portion a of the transparent electrode 33 to which the AC power supply 39 is connected and the input pen 25. The resistance between the transparent electrode 33 and the portion b is R1. The current flowing from the input pen 25 to the ground point is i.

Next, with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3, the input pen 2
The operation of detecting the coordinate position designated in 5 will be described. In FIG. 2, when the input pen 25 is brought into contact with the polarizing plate 31 on the liquid crystal panel 17, the input pen 25 and the transparent electrode 3
Since 3 is capacitively coupled with the polarizing plate 31 and the upper glass substrate 32, an AC current i flows from the AC power source 39 through the path of the transparent electrode 33, that is, the part a, the part b, the input pen 25, and the ground point. The value of the resistance R1 can be known from this current value i, and the distance between the part a and the part b in FIG. 3 can be obtained.

In the monitor unit 2 of this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4, the x decoder driver 41 to which the x electrode groups X1 to Xn formed of transparent electrodes of the matrix liquid crystal panel 17 are connected, and the y electrodes. Y to which groups Y1 to Yn are connected
A decoder / driver 42 and a detection signal driver 43 to which the detection signal electrode groups A1 to An connected to the x electrode groups X1 to Xn are connected are provided. Further, the detection signal driver 4
An AC power supply 39 and a detection signal scanning circuit 44 are connected to the unit 3, respectively.

An address detection circuit 45 to which the output of the input pen 25 and the output of the detection signal scanning circuit 44 are input.
An address writing circuit 46 for writing the detection data to the address memory 48, a color ratio control circuit 47 for arbitrarily controlling the color ratio by varying the level output to each of the address memories 48, and the address memory And a read control circuit 48 for controlling data read from the VTR unit 3 to the VTR unit 3.

The address detection will be briefly described. The detection signal driver 43 sequentially supplies the detection signal electrode groups A1 to An with AC signals obtained from the AC power supply 39 in response to a signal from the detection signal scanning circuit 44, so that the matrix liquid crystal panel 17 of the matrix liquid crystal panel 17 is operated. x electrode group X1
Energize AC signal to Xn. Here, input pen 25
Is located on the intersection of the x electrode Xi and the y electrode Yi of the matrix liquid crystal panel 17, the AC current value obtained via the input pen 25 and the position information Ai obtained from the detection signal scanning circuit 44. That is, since the position information Xi is obtained, the address detection circuit 45 detects an address in which the x-axis coordinate is Xi and the y-axis coordinate is Yi based on these information.

This address is written in the address memory 48 via the address writing circuit 46, and the pixel of the matrix liquid crystal panel 17 corresponding to the address stored in the address memory 48 is set to the X decoder driver 41 and the Y decoder driver. Driven by 42, input pen 2
The pixels of the matrix liquid crystal panel 17 corresponding to the position 5 can be selectively turned on. By repeating these, the pixels of the matrix liquid crystal panel 17 are sequentially turned on according to the locus of the input pen 25.

The output address data of the address writing circuit 46 is determined by the color ratio control circuit 47 as a mixture ratio of R, G, and B colors, and the address data of each color is a numerical value of a level corresponding to the mixture ratio. It is stored in the R memory, G memory, and B memory in the address memory 48, respectively.
Then, the read control circuit 49 includes an R memory, a G memory,
The information stored in the B memory is converted into the R memory, the G memory, and the B memory.
The data is read from each of the memories in a time-division manner, time-axis-compressed (about 1/7), and then added with vertical and horizontal synchronization signals and output to the VTR unit 3.

Further, the read control circuit 49 reads out the data from the address memory 48 by horizontally reversing it based on the face-to-face photographing mode signal during the face-to-face photographing.

Next, regarding the VTR section 3 of this embodiment,
This will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 5 is a schematic block diagram of a recording system according to the present embodiment, which includes an input terminal 51 to which a captured video signal from the camera unit 1 is input, an input terminal 52 to which an external input video signal is input, and these input terminals. A selector switch 53 for switching between 51 and 52; a luminance signal processing circuit 54 and a color signal processing circuit 55 for respectively processing the luminance signal Y and the color signal C separated from the video signal transmitted via the selector switch 53; An input terminal 56 for voice input, an FM modulator 57 that FM-modulates a voice signal input via the input terminal 56, an input terminal 57 to which a character signal read from the address memory 48 is input, and tracking An input terminal 58 to which a control signal is input, rotary magnetic heads 21 and 22, a recording amplifier 59.
It has and.

Further, the recording amplifier 59 has a luminance signal Y and a color signal C which have been subjected to respective processing by the luminance signal processing circuit 54 and a color signal processing circuit 55, an audio signal AFM from the FM modulator 57, and tracking. The control signal is frequency-multiplexed and recorded on the 1ch track on the magnetic tape 24 via the rotary magnetic head 21 (or 22), and the character signal and the tracking control signal are frequency-multiplexed.
The magnetic tape 2 via the rotary magnetic head 21 (or 22)
It records on the 2ch track on 4.

The recording amplifier 59 is arranged so that only the character signal can be rewritten.
A control means for driving and controlling 22 is included.

Further, although not shown in particular, only when the erasing head is tracing on the 2ch track, the erasing head is driven to control so as to erase only the character signal recorded on the 2ch track. An erasing head drive control circuit is provided.

FIG. 6 shows the recording position of each signal on each recording track and the frequency distribution thereof when recorded in this embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a schematic block diagram of the reproducing system in this embodiment. Each signal recorded on the magnetic tape 24 is input to the reproducing amplifier 60 via the rotary magnetic heads 21 and 22. The luminance signal Y and the color signal C of the reproduced signals are subjected to predetermined processing by the luminance signal processing circuit 61 and the color signal processing circuit 62, respectively, and then input to the superposition circuit 63.

On the other hand, the character signal is the A / D converter 6
After being converted into a digital signal at 4, it is temporarily stored in the memory 65. Then, the read control circuit 66 controls the reading of the memory 65 so as to extend the time axis (about 7 times), and extends the time axis of the character signal and reads it. The character signal read from the memory 65 is used by the D / A converter 6
After being converted into an analog signal at 7, the signal is input to the superposition circuit 63, superposed on the reproduced video signal, and output to the monitor unit 2 via the output terminal 68.

The reproduced audio signal output from the reproduction amplifier 60 is FM demodulated by the FM demodulator 69 and output to the output terminal 70. The reproduction tracking signal output from the reproduction amplifier 60 is output from the output terminal 71 to the VTR drive control system.

In the above embodiment, the video signal and the character signal are respectively recorded in different areas on the magnetic tape, but the character signal is superimposed on the video signal and recorded in the same recording area. Needless to say, it is okay.

Next, camera control such as automatic focusing control and automatic exposure control in this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 8 and 9. In FIG. 8, 90 is a photographing lens, and 91
Is the aperture. An image pickup circuit 92 having a two-dimensional image pickup device such as a CCD image sensor converts an optical image of a subject by the taking lens 90 into an electric image signal and outputs an image signal S1. A gate circuit 93 extracts a video signal corresponding to a designated area for automatic focusing control and automatic exposure control.

The output S3 of the gate circuit 93 is used for automatic focusing control by the AF control circuit 94 according to a known automatic focusing method such as a hill climbing servo method for the high frequency component of the video signal. On the other hand, the AE control circuit 95 includes the gate circuit 9
The output S3 of 3 is further weighted as appropriate to perform average photometry, center-weighted photometry, etc. to form an exposure control signal. And
The driving device 96 of the photographing lens 90 moves the photographing lens 90 to the in-focus position based on the output of the AF control circuit 94, and the driving device 97 of the diaphragm 92 appropriately exposes the diaphragm 91 based on the output of the AE control circuit 95. To control.

Reference numeral 98 is a clock circuit that regulates the operation of the image pickup circuit 92, and supplies a horizontal synchronizing signal Hsync and a vertical synchronizing signal Vsync to the gate control circuit 99. The gate control circuit 99 compares the detected position signal from the address detection circuit 45 with the horizontal synchronization signal Hsync and the vertical synchronization signal Vsync from the clock circuit 98, and controls the gate circuit 93 based on the comparison result to display on the monitor screen. Only the video signal corresponding to the corresponding area in (4) is passed.

The camera control operation configured as described above will be described. When the photographer sets the camera control mode and designates a desired position on the liquid crystal panel 17 with the input pen 25, the address detection circuit 45 is displayed. The position signal from the device is sent to the gate control circuit 99. The gate control circuit 99 outputs a control signal so that a video signal corresponding to the screen area specified by the position signal can pass through the gate circuit 93. Accordingly, the AF control circuit 94 and the AE control circuit 95 perform the AF control and the AE control based on the subject information of the designated area, and thus the automatic focusing control and the automatic exposure control can be performed according to the photographer's intention of drawing. .

The camera control operation described above is effective only when the photographer sets the camera control mode, and is normally switchable so as to use the photometric method as described in the conventional example. . Further, it is obvious that the AF control mode and the AE control mode may be provided so that the AF control and the AE control can be controlled independently.

Further, in the first embodiment described above, the generation of the character signal by the capacitive coupling has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this method. A second embodiment of a camera-integrated VTR with a monitor according to the present invention, which creates a character signal by a pressure-sensitive method, will be described below with reference to FIGS. 10 to 11. The same parts are designated by the same reference numerals, and the description thereof will be omitted.

The liquid crystal panel 17 of the monitor unit 2 in this embodiment includes an input unit of a pressure-sensitive coordinate input device using a resistance film as shown in FIG. In FIG.
Reference numeral 71 is an insulating substrate on which a resistance film 72 is applied. Further, a resistance terminal plate 73, which is electrically connected to the resistance film 72 and formed of a resistor having a resistance film sufficiently smaller than the resistance film 72, is applied. This resistance terminal board 73
A power source 74 for applying a constant voltage is connected to the resistance film 72 in order to generate a constant gradient.

Although FIG. 10 shows an example in which a voltage is applied in the X direction, the same resistance terminal plate 7 can be used in the Y direction.
3 is connected and the voltage from the power supply 74 is switched in the X and Y directions in a time division manner by a switch circuit or the like,
It is a known technique that the potential gradients in the Y and Y directions can be obtained in a time division manner.

75 is a pressure-sensitive rubber which conducts when pressure is applied, and 76 is a flexible film sheet.
An electrode sheet in which a conductor is applied to the pressure sensitive rubber 75 side or a flexible conductor is used. Reference numeral 77 is a shield sheet for electrostatic shield, which is composed of a flexible conductor like 76 and is connected to the ground potential of the circuit. This shield sheet 77 is arranged between the human body and the electrode sheet,
By connecting the conductive portion to the ground potential of low impedance, the human body can absorb the snare-induced noise.

When pressed with a writing instrument or the like from above the shield sheet 77, the pressure-sensitive rubber 75 at the pressed point is conducted, and the voltage of the resistance film 72 at the pressed point is guided to the electrode sheet 76,
The voltage is input to the input stage operational amplifier 78 of the voltage detection circuit, and further, in the detection circuit of the subsequent stage (not shown), the position is calculated from the potential gradient of the resistance film 72.

FIG. 11 is an equivalent circuit diagram of FIG. 8 showing the principle of detecting the coordinate position in the liquid crystal panel 17 of the monitor unit 2 of this embodiment. Reference numeral 79 shows the equivalent resistance of the resistance film 72, and the power supply 74. Gives a constant potential gradient. Reference numeral 80 may be a combined resistance of the pressure sensitive rubber and the electrode sheet. In order to raise the input impedance of the 78 op-amp, a voltage follower is used as shown in the figure. 81 is a distributed capacitance existing between the shield sheet 77 and the electrode sheet 76. Reference numeral 82 is a stray capacitance existing between the human body (hand) which is the noise source 83 and the shield sheet.

Then, based on the voltage value corresponding to the detected position output from the pressure-sensitive coordinate input device as described above, the coordinate position detection circuit (not shown) detects the coordinate position pressed by a writing instrument or the like. However, like the first embodiment,
After writing in the address memory once, the liquid crystal is driven to display the coordinate position on the liquid crystal panel 17, and
The R section 3 records on the 2ch track (the video signal is the 1ch track) on the magnetic tape 24.

In the camera control mode such as automatic focusing control and automatic exposure control, a coordinate position detection circuit (not shown) is based on the voltage value corresponding to the detected position output from the pressure-sensitive coordinate input device. Then, the coordinate position pressed by a writing instrument or the like is detected, and the optical system is controlled by the video signal from the area including the coordinate position, as in the first embodiment.

In the first and second embodiments, the user creates an arbitrary character by using the input pen 25, a writing tool, etc., but the text memory in the conventional example described above is used. The stored fixed character is read out and displayed on the monitor screen, and the video signal on the magnetic tape of the VTR is recorded 1
It is obvious that the recording may be performed on the 2ch track other than the ch track, and the description thereof will be omitted.

In the first and second embodiments, the magnetic recording / recording in the 8 mm video tape recorder is performed.
The playback method was explained, but each recording area has 2
It may be set separately for one recording track. Further, it is obvious that digital recording / reproducing processing may be performed.

[0050]

According to the camera-integrated recording device with a monitor of the present invention, the photographer uses an input pen, a writing instrument or the like to control the optical system in the camera unit such as automatic focusing control and automatic exposure control. Since any position on the screen can be easily weighted, there is no restriction on the composition of the imaging screen. Moreover, the instruction of the position to attach this weight is
It is possible to perform it while looking at the actual image to be photographed, and it is possible to perform drawing according to the intention of the user.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic explanatory view showing a camera-integrated VTR with a monitor according to a first embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a schematic side sectional explanatory view showing a liquid crystal panel of the camera-integrated VTR with a monitor according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is an equivalent circuit diagram of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a method of displaying and recording a character signal of the camera-integrated VTR with a monitor according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a signal recording processing system of the camera-integrated VTR with a monitor according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a schematic explanatory view showing a magnetic recording / reproducing system of the camera-integrated VTR with a monitor according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing a processing reproduction processing system of the camera-integrated VTR with a monitor according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a schematic block diagram showing a camera control device of a camera-integrated VTR with a monitor according to the first embodiment.

9 is a signal waveform diagram in FIG.

FIG. 10 is a schematic side cross-sectional explanatory view showing a coordinate position input device of a camera-integrated VTR with a monitor according to a second embodiment.

11 is an equivalent circuit diagram of FIG.

FIG. 12 is a schematic explanatory view showing a conventional camera-integrated VTR with a monitor.

FIG. 13 is a schematic block diagram showing a conventional camera-integrated VTR with a monitor.

FIG. 14 is a schematic explanatory diagram of a magnetic head drum showing a magnetic recording / reproducing system in a conventional camera-integrated VTR with a monitor.

FIG. 15 is a schematic explanatory diagram showing a magnetic recording / reproducing system in a conventional camera-integrated VTR with a monitor.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 camera section 2 Monitor section 3 VTR section 4 connection 5 camera lens 17 LCD panel 21, 22 Magnetic head 24 magnetic tape 25 input pen 33 Transparent electrode 39 AC power supply 40 coupling capacity 43 Detection signal driver 45 Address detection circuit 46 address writing circuit 47 color ratio control circuit 48 address memory 49 Read control circuit 59 recording amplifier 60 playback amplifier 63 Superposition circuit 64 A / D converter 65 memory 66 Read control circuit 67 D / A converter 71 insulating substrate 72 Resistance film 74 power supply 75 Pressure-sensitive rubber 76 film sheet 90 shooting lens 91 Aperture 92 Imaging circuit 93 gate circuit 94 AF control circuit 95 AE control circuit 96 Photography lens drive 97 Aperture drive 98 clock circuit 99 gate control circuit

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Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A camera unit having an image pickup means for photographing an object, a monitor unit having a monitor screen for displaying an image photographed by the camera unit, and a video signal captured from the camera unit recorded on a recording medium. In a camera-integrated recording device with a monitor including a recording unit, an input pen for designating arbitrary position coordinates on the monitor screen in the monitor unit, and detection for detecting a designated coordinate position by the input pen on the monitor screen Means, an extracting means for extracting a video signal corresponding to a screen area specified by the coordinate position designated by the input pen, and an imaging means in the camera section based on the video signal extracted by the extracting means. An image-recording control device with a monitor, comprising: 2. The camera-integrated recording device with a monitor according to claim 1, wherein the imaging control means performs automatic focusing control in the camera section based on the video signal extracted by the extraction means. Characteristic camera integrated recording device with a monitor. 3. A camera-integrated recording device with a monitor according to claim 1, wherein the imaging control means performs automatic exposure control in the camera section based on the video signal extracted by the extraction means. Recording device with camera and monitor.