JPH09319842A - Method and device for recording and reproducing photograph with audio information - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the method and device for recording and reproducing photographs with audio information which are economical and are easy to handle by easily recording a picture and audio information on the same recording medium. SOLUTION: This method for recording and reproducing photographs with audio information records a picture and picture data of sounds on the same recording medium and reproduces sounds from the recording medium, where the picture and picture data of sounds are recorded. At the time of recording, collected sounds are converted to an audio signal (101), and the audio signal is converted into encoded data of sounds by compression code encoding (102), and encoded data of sounds is converted to image data of sounds (103), and image data of sounds is recorded on the recording medium where a photographed picture is to be recorded (104). At the time of reproduction, image data of sounds is read from the recording medium where image data of sounds and the photographed images are recorded (105), and image data of sounds is converted into encoded data (106), and further, encoded data is decoded (107), thus sound (108) is reproduced.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a photo recording / reproducing method and device with sound information, and more particularly to recording an image and image data of sound on the same recording medium, and recording image data of image and sound. The present invention relates to a photo recording / reproducing method and device with sound information for reproducing sound from a recorded medium.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, on the same recording medium, for example, a photograph,
As a technique of recording sound together, a technique of electrically storing sound in an IC chip is known in addition to photography.

FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining a conventional technique of electrically storing sound in an IC chip separately from a photograph. In FIG. 6, 1 is a sound collecting unit, 2 is a compression coding unit, and 10 is a sound coding unit. Is an image recording unit, and 11 is an audio recording unit.

As shown in FIG. 6, in the conventional technique, an image is recorded on a recording film by the image recording unit 10 by the conventional photographic technique.

As for sound, first, the sound collecting unit 1 collects the sound and converts it into a sound signal, and then the compression coding unit 2 compresses the sound signal output from the sound collecting unit 1. It is converted into coded data of sound, and then the coded data of sound output from the compression coding section 2 is recorded in the voice recording section 11 in a storage medium such as an IC chip.

By storing the film on which the image is recorded by the image recording unit 10 and the IC chip on which the encoded sound data is recorded by the voice recording unit 11 together, a photograph with sound information is realized. Was there.

FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining a conventional technique for reproducing coded data for sounds recorded on an IC chip. In FIG. 7, 12 is a sound information reading unit, 8 is a decoding unit, Reference numeral 9 is a reproducing unit.

As shown in FIG. 7, in order to reproduce sound from a photograph with sound information according to the conventional technique, first, the sound information reading unit 1
At 2, the coded data of the sound is read from the IC chip, then at the decoding section 8, the coded data of the sound output from the sound information reading section 12 is decoded and converted into a sound signal, and then reproduced. The unit 9 reproduces a sound from the sound signal output from the decoding unit 8.

[0009]

However, in the method of electrically storing sound in the IC chip separately from the conventional photographs, an IC chip is required for each photograph, and the IC
A battery is required to hold the data stored in the chip, and the process of storing sound in the IC chip must be processed separately from the photo development.

Therefore, the method of electrically storing sound in the IC chip separately from the conventional photographs has the problems that the cost per photograph increases and the handling is troublesome.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and an object of the present invention is to provide a picture recording / reproducing method and apparatus with sound information, in which image and sound information are recorded on the same recording medium. It is an object of the present invention to provide a technology that makes it possible to easily record, and that is economical and easy to handle.

The above and other objects and novel features of the present invention will become apparent from the description of the present specification and the accompanying drawings.

[0013]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Among the inventions disclosed in the present application, the outline of a representative one will be briefly described.
It is as follows.

(1) A photo recording / reproducing method with sound information, in which an image and sound image data are recorded on the same recording medium, and sound is reproduced from the recording medium on which the image data and the sound image data are recorded. , At the time of recording, the collected sound is converted into a sound signal, then the sound signal is compression-encoded and converted into sound coded data, and then the sound coded data is converted into sound image data, Further, the sound image data is recorded on a recording medium on which the photographed image is recorded, and at the time of reproduction, the sound image data is read from the recording medium on which the sound image data and the photographed image are recorded. Is converted into coded sound data, and the coded sound data is decoded to reproduce the sound.

(2) A photo recording device with sound information for recording images and sound image data on the same recording medium, comprising image data conversion means for converting coded sound data into sound image data. Is characterized by.

(3) In the means of (2) above, a sound collecting means for converting the collected sound into a sound signal and a sound signal output from the sound collecting means are provided before the image data converting means. Compression encoding means for compressing and encoding and converting to encoded data of sound.

(4) In the means of (2) or (3), the recording means for recording the image data of the sound output from the image data converting means on a recording medium on which the photographed image is recorded, It is characterized by further comprising.

(5) A photo reproducing apparatus with sound information for reproducing sound from a recording medium in which an image and sound image data are recorded, wherein the sound is reproduced from the recording medium in which the image and sound image data are recorded. Image data reading means for reading image data, image data reverse conversion means for converting the sound image data into sound coded data, and sound coded data output from the image data reverse conversion means for decoding And a decoding means for converting into a sound signal.

(6) The means of (5) above is further characterized by further comprising reproducing means for reproducing a sound from the sound signal output from the decoding means.

(7) A photo recording / reproducing apparatus with sound information for recording an image and image data of sound on the same recording medium, and reproducing sound from the recording medium on which the image data of image and sound are recorded. A sound collecting means for collecting sound and converting it into a sound signal; a compression coding means for compressing and coding a sound signal output from the sound collecting means to convert it into coded data of the sound; and the compression coding. Image data conversion means for converting encoded sound data output from the means into sound image data; image data reading means for reading sound image data from a recording medium on which an image and sound image data are recorded; Image data inverse conversion means for converting the image data of the sound output from the image data reading means into coded sound data, and a sound signal by decoding the coded data of the sound output from the image data reverse conversion means. Strange Characterized in that it comprises a decoding means for.

(8) The recording means for recording the image data of the sound output from the image data converting means on the recording medium for recording the photographed image in the means of (7),
Alternatively, it is characterized by further comprising at least one of reproducing means for reproducing a sound from a sound signal outputted from the decoding means.

According to each of the above means, after the collected sound signal is encoded and converted into the coded data of the sound, the coded data of the sound is converted into the image data of the sound, and the image data of the sound is converted. It is recorded in a photograph together with a captured image of a landscape, a person, etc., and the image data of the sound recorded in the photograph is read out together with the captured image, and the image data of the read out sound is encoded data of the sound. After being converted to, the code data of the sound is decoded and the sound is reproduced.

As described above, according to each of the above-mentioned means, the sound is converted into the image data and recorded in the photograph, so that it is not necessary to electrically handle the battery or the like, and the outside scenery is photographed. Since development processing can be performed together with an image, sound can be recorded only by conventional development processing, which is economical and easy to handle.

[0024]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

In all the drawings for explaining the embodiments, those having the same function are designated by the same reference numerals, and the repeated description thereof will be omitted.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic structure of a photo recording apparatus with sound information according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a sound recording apparatus with sound information according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a photo reproduction device with sound information which is an embodiment of the present invention for reproducing sound from a photo created by a photo recording device.

In FIGS. 1 and 2, 1 is a sound collecting section, 2 is a compression encoding section, 3 is an image data converting section, 4 is a recording section, 6 is an image data reading section, 7 is an image data reverse converting section, Reference numeral 8 is a decoding unit, and 9 is a reproducing unit.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart for explaining the recording / reproducing method of the photo recording device with sound information and the photo reproducing device with sound information according to the embodiment of the present invention.

Next, the recording / reproducing method of the photo recording device with sound information and the photo reproducing device with sound information according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

In the photo recording device with sound information according to the embodiment of the present invention, first, sound is collected by the sound collecting unit 1 and converted into a sound signal (step 101), and then the compression coding unit 2 is used. In step 102, the sound signal output from the sound collecting unit 1 is compression-encoded and converted into sound coded data, and the image data converting unit 3 outputs the sound signal from the compression encoding unit 2. The encoded data of the sound is converted into the image data of the sound (step 103), and the recording unit 4 further includes the image data conversion unit 3
The image data of the sound output from is recorded on the film together with the captured images of landscapes, people, etc. (step 1
04).

In the photo reproducing apparatus with sound information according to the embodiment of the present invention, first, image data of sound from a photograph in which an image taken by the image data reading unit 6 and image data of sound are recorded. Read (step 105),
Next, the image data inverse conversion unit 7 converts the image data of the sound output from the image data reading unit 6 into coded data of the sound (step 106), and then the decoding unit 8 performs the image data inverse conversion. The code data of the sound output from the unit 7 is decoded and converted into a sound signal (step 107), and the reproducing unit 9 reproduces the sound from the sound signal output from the decoding unit 8 (step 108). .

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a photograph created by the photograph recording device with sound information according to the embodiment of the present invention.

In the example shown in FIG. 4, the captured image portion 30
A landscape, a person, etc. are recorded in the same manner as in the related art, and the sound image data portion 31 is recorded in a blank portion.

FIG. 5 is a photograph recording apparatus with sound information according to the embodiment of the present invention, in which the image data conversion unit 3 converts the encoded data of the sound output from the compression encoding unit 2 into the image data of the sound. It is a figure which shows an example.

In the example shown in FIG. 5, the bit of "1" corresponds to the white block and the bit of "0" corresponds to the black block, and the encoded data of the sound is "1, 0, 1,". 1,0,
If the code data is “1,0,0,1,1” (FIG. 5A), the image data conversion unit 3 displays
The image data is converted so that each block of "white, black, white, white, black, white, black, black, white, white" (FIG. 5B) is printed.

Further, using color color blocks, the color color blocks are converted into image data such that each color block is printed on the film in correspondence with each bit combination of the coded sound data. You may do it.

In this case, the shape of the block is not limited to a square, and various shapes such as a circle and a triangle can be adopted as the shape of the block.

In order to reproduce the sound, the white block and the black block may be read by the image data reading device, converted into the sound signal by the decoding device and reproduced.

Further, the image data may be a commonly used bar code, and in this case,
Using the 200 bit / sec voice compression encoding method,
About 200 barcodes can provide about 1 second of voice.

In order to reproduce the sound, for example, the bar code data reading device may read the image data, and the decoding device may convert the sound data into a sound signal to reproduce the sound.

The present invention can be applied to all photographic recording devices such as a photographic machine and a printing machine. Therefore, the image shown in FIG. 2 may be image data.

When the photographic recording device with sound information according to the embodiment of the present invention is a photographic device, for example, a light emitting diode for recording image data of sound is provided in the recording unit, and the light emitting diode is used to generate a sound. The image data of 1 may be recorded on the film.

Further, in the photo recording device with sound information according to the embodiment of the present invention, the sound collecting unit 1, the compression encoding unit 2 and the image data converting unit 3 are made compatible with various recording units. The sound section 1, the compression encoding section 2, and the image data conversion section 3 can be carried around, and thus the recording section 4 can be carried.
Even if the recording unit is inconvenient to carry such as a printing machine or a computer, it is possible to record the sound image data on the recording medium by using an appropriate recording unit at the carrying destination.

In the photographic recording device with sound information according to the embodiment of the present invention, the sound signal output from the sound collecting unit 1,
Alternatively, by recording the encoded data of the sound output from the compression encoding unit 2 in another recording medium, for example, a magnetic recording medium, the sound collection unit 1 or the sound collection unit 1 and the compression encoding unit 2 can be carried. In addition, by converting the captured image into image data and recording the image data on another recording medium, for example, a magnetic recording medium, it is possible to cope with a case where the recording unit is not carried.

Similarly, in the photo information reproducing apparatus with sound information according to the embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to make the reproducing section 9 portable.

As described above, the embodiment of the present invention has the image data conversion unit 3 for converting the sound signal into the sound image data and the recording unit 4 for recording the sound image data on the film. , Sound can be recorded as an image on the film.

Therefore, it is not necessary to record the sound on an external recording medium, for example, an IC chip, and the sound can be easily handled like a conventional photograph.

The present invention can also be applied to printed matter and the like. For example, by adding image data such as a bark together with an image of an animal in an animal pictorial book or the like, the value added can be made higher. be able to.

When it is desired to publish demonstration sounds in books or magazines, cassette tapes, DAT, M are currently used.
Sound is recorded on an external recording medium such as a D, CD, or CD-ROM. However, if the present invention is used to post the sound as image data of the sound, it is necessary to use a special external recording medium. Therefore, it is possible to publish demonstration sounds in books and magazines without changing the conventional printing method.

Furthermore, by recording the image data of sound by using the present invention on a postcard with characters, photographs, pictures, etc., it becomes possible to record and send the voices of family members on New Year's cards.

As described above, the invention made by the present inventor is:
Although the present invention has been specifically described based on the above-mentioned embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments, and it goes without saying that various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the invention.

[0052]

The effects obtained by the typical ones of the inventions disclosed in the present application will be briefly described as follows.

(1) According to the present invention, since the sound is converted into image data and recorded on the recording medium, it is not necessary to electrically handle the battery and the like as in the conventional case. Since development processing can be performed together with an image of a landscape taken, sound can be recorded on a recording medium only by conventional development processing.

As a result, it becomes possible to carry out the economical and easy-to-use photo recording with sound information.

(2) Since the current photo development method can be used for the photograph to which the sound information created according to the present invention is added, the sound can be recorded without losing the ease of handling of the conventional photograph. This makes it possible to create high-value-added photos.

(3) According to the present invention, since a means other than the recording means can be carried around, even if the recording section is inconvenient to carry around, or if there is no suitable recording section at the carrying destination. Even if it is, it will be possible.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a photo recording device with sound information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a photo reproduction apparatus with sound information according to an embodiment of the present invention for reproducing sound from a photograph created by the photo recording apparatus with sound information according to the embodiment of the present invention. It is a figure.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart illustrating a recording / reproducing method of the photo recording device with sound information and the photo reproducing device with sound information according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a photograph created by the photograph recording device with sound information according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an example of converting the encoded data of sound output from the compression encoding unit 2 into image data of sound in the image data conversion unit 3 in the photo recording device with sound information according to the embodiment of the present invention. FIG.

FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining a conventional technique of electrically storing sound in an IC chip separately from a photograph.

FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining a conventional technique for reproducing coded data for sounds recorded in an IC chip.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Sound collecting unit, 2 ... Compression encoding unit, 3 ... Image data converting unit, 4 ... Recording unit, 6 ... Image data reading unit, 7 ... Image data reverse converting unit, 8 ... Decoding unit, 9 ... Reproducing unit 10 ... Image recording unit, 11 ... Sound recording unit, 12 ... Sound information reading unit.

Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. A photographic recording / reproducing method with sound information, wherein an image and sound image data are recorded on the same recording medium, and the sound is reproduced from the recording medium on which the image and sound image data are recorded. During recording, the collected sound is converted into a sound signal, then the sound signal is compression-encoded and converted into sound coded data, and then the sound coded data is converted into sound image data. The sound image data is recorded on the recording medium on which the captured image is recorded, and during reproduction, the sound image data is read from the recording medium on which the sound image data and the captured image are recorded, and then the sound image data is recorded. A photo recording / reproducing method with sound information, which comprises converting image data into coded sound data, and further decoding the coded sound data to reproduce the sound. 2. A photo recording device with sound information for recording an image and sound image data on the same recording medium, comprising image data conversion means for converting coded sound data into sound image data. Characteristic photo recording device with sound information. 3. A sound collection unit for converting the collected sound into a sound signal before the image data conversion unit, and sound-encoded data by compression-encoding the sound signal output from the sound collection unit. 3. The photographic recording device with sound information according to claim 2, further comprising: a compression encoding unit for converting to. 4. The recording device according to claim 2, further comprising recording means for recording the image data of the sound output from the image data converting means on a recording medium on which a photographed image is recorded. The photo recording device with sound information described in 3. 5. A photo reproducing apparatus with sound information for reproducing sound from a recording medium in which an image and sound image data are recorded, wherein the sound image is recorded from the recording medium in which the image and the sound image data are recorded. Image data reading means for reading data, image data reverse conversion means for converting the sound image data into sound coded data, and sound coded data output from the image data reverse conversion means for decoding the sound. A photo reproducing apparatus with sound information, comprising: a decoding unit for converting into a signal. 6. The photo reproducing apparatus with sound information according to claim 5, further comprising reproducing means for reproducing sound from a sound signal output from the decoding means. 7. A photo recording / reproducing apparatus with sound information, which records an image and image data of sound on the same recording medium, and reproduces sound from the recording medium on which image data of image and sound are recorded, Sound collection means for collecting sounds and converting them into sound signals, compression coding means for compressing and coding sound signals output from the sound collecting means and converting them into coded data of sounds, and the compression coding means. Image data conversion means for converting encoded data of sound output from the device into image data of sound; image data reading means for reading image data of sound from a recording medium on which an image and image data of sound are recorded; Image data inverse conversion means for converting the image data of the sound output from the image data reading means into encoded data of the sound, and decoding the encoded data of the sound output from the image data inverse conversion means into a sound signal. Convert Sound information with photographic recording reproducing apparatus comprising: a decoding means. 8. Recording means for recording the image data of the sound output from the image data converting means on a recording medium on which a photographed image is recorded, or sound from a sound signal output from the decoding means. The photographic recording / reproducing apparatus with sound information according to claim 7, further comprising at least one of reproducing means for reproducing.