Information processing apparatus and recording medium

Details Information processing apparatus and recording medium Information processing apparatus and recording medium

1997-11-06

2001-12-04

Nguyen, Huy (Department: 2615)

Motion video signal processing for recording or reproducing

Local trick play processing

With randomly accessible medium

C386S349000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06327423

ABSTRACT:

INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
The disclosure of the following priority application be herein incorporated by reference: Japanese Patent Application No. 9-101273, filed Apr. 18, 1997.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of Invention
The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, and in particular, it relates to an information processing apparatus capable of recording a photographic image of an object as well as sound.
2. Description of the Related Art
Development of smaller semiconductors and the progress of mounting technologies have contributed to the development of electronic cameras capable of recording sound in addition to the images of an object. Such electronic cameras have been available in the marketplace in recent years.
However, because sound comprises time-related information and images comprise space-related information, when recording sound it becomes necessary to designate the start of recording and end of recording. For example, when recording images and sound simultaneously, the recording of a photo image of an object at the time a release switch is pressed is all that is required for an image, but the designation of the timing of the ending of the recording is also required for sound.
Therefore, the simultaneous recording of image and sound becomes possible, for example, by creating a device in which the recording of sound begins as soon as the shooting is executed and the recording of sound is ended when a predetermined operation is executed. However, such a device presents the problem that the operation to end the recording of sound must be executed for each shooting to complete the operation.
In order to resolve the problem described above, a device is suggested, for example, in which the recording of sound is executed only for a predetermined time (for example, 10 seconds) while recording the photo image of the object when the release switch is pressed, which eliminates the need to execute an operation to end the recording of the sound.
However, such a device presents the problem that the recording of sound for longer than 10 seconds (or some other predetermined time) is not possible. Once shooting begins, the recording of sound is always enabled for 10 seconds, which makes it impossible to execute shooting in an unexpected situation during the recording of sound, hence a shooting opportunity may be lost.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Considering the problems described above, the present invention makes it possible for an electronic camera that is capable of recording images and sound simultaneously to easily change the timing of ending the recording of sound, without making the operation complicated.
The information processing apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the invention includes a still image recording means for recording still images when a first control member is operated, a sound recording means for recording sound for only a predetermined time after the operation of the first control member, a detection means for detecting the operation of a second control member, and a recording time alteration means for changing the recording time of the sound recording means. If, and therefore when, the operation of the second control member is detected, the recording time alteration means changes the recording time as a function of the operation of the second control member.
According to another aspect of the invention, a recording medium for use in an information processing apparatus capable of recording images and sound, is encoded with a control program that causes the information processing apparatus to record only a still image when a first control member is operated, record only sound for a predetermined time after the operation of the first control member, detect the operation of a second control member, and when the operation of the second control member is detected within the predetermined time after operation of the first control member, change the predetermined sound recording time as a function of the operation of the second control member.


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