Electronic still camera

Details Electronic still camera Electronic still camera

1982-08-13

1985-09-10

Richardson, Robert L.

Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval

Monitoring or testing the progress of recording

360 721, 360 722, 358335, 358906, G11B 2700, H04N 5782

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045410216

ABSTRACT:
An electronic still camera which is capable of taking a still picture purely electronically. Such a camera employs a magnetic tape recorder of audio grade but is able to obtain magnetic records that are excellent in random accessibility for reproducing. The electronic still camera is provided with a magnetic recording unit for recording image data from a photoelectric conversion unit on a magnetic tape preformatted with tape marks defining a plurality of record units, each record unit corresponding to one frame, and a format signal detector for detecting the tape marks or format signals on the magnetic tape. In recording of the image data on the magnetic tape, the record unit preceeding each photographing unit, a photographing unit including a single frame for still photography and a plurality of frames for motion picture photography, is made a non-record unit and the non-record unit is used as a magnetic tape start and stop area.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3925815 (1975-12-01), Lemelson
patent: 4163256 (1979-07-01), Adcock

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