Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Hiroo Hosono

Shinzo Matsui

Koji Shimobayashi

Akiteru Kimura

Yoshiyuki Nada

Shinichi Harada

Kenji Kishi

Ryoichi Sawaki

Miki Matsuzaki

Yoshikazu Yamada

Label printer

Cartridge for a label printer

An imaging apparatus are provided with a card-like part 1a, a box-like part 1b united thereto, a connector 14 provided at one end of the card-like part 1a and having a terminal for sending out signal to the outside, a camera unit 11 detachably accommodated in the box-like unit 1b, an imaging circuit unit 15 for digitalizing image output from the camera unit 11, signal processing means including a digital processing circuit unit 16 for digitally processing the output signal of the unit 15 and a memory circuit unit 17 capable of storing the processed digital signal, an operating unit 12 provided in the box-like part 1b and operable in connection with imaging, and trigger switches 12b and 11c provided for imaging on the operating unit 12 and camera unit 11, respectively.

Imaging apparatus having box-like and card-like parts

A reading section optically reads a code from a recording medium having a portion on which multimedia information including at least one of audio information, video information, and digital code data is recorded as an optically readable code. A plurality of processing sections sequentially process the code read by the reading section and output the processed code as the original multimedia information. An operation switch designates the start of reading of the code. A control section causes one or a plurality of the plurality of processing sections to terminate a processing operation for a code which has been read by the time the operation switch is operated, and executes processing for data of the processed code in correspondence with another processing section on a subsequent stage, on the basis of the operation of the operation switch after the start of reading is designated by the operation switch.

System for optically recording/reproducing multimedia information using

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Hachioji, Japan

Hiroo Hosono