Sony Corporation

Kouji Komatsu

Yoichi Miyajima

Yoshinari Higuchi

Masato Yamaguchi

Seiichi Morikawa

Hajime Ishimitsu

Yukihiro Kato

Hiroyuki Ohyama

Junya Ishihara

Toshimitsu Kubodera

Keikichi Chiba

Katsuhiro Sugiyama

A camera-integrated VTR system including a printer embodying a data processing device of the invention is provided, wherein various external data supplied from an external device and internal data generated or recorded internally are enabled to be exchanged selectively, easily and directly between respective components of the system without use of any additional component therebetween so as to be printed instantaneously. The printer of the camera-integrated VTR system comprises a picture display device; a memory device for storing a still picture displayed on the picture display device; and a print operation button for operating the printer, wherein the print operation button is a pushbutton switch which has two modes of states of a half-depressed mode and a full-depressed mode; and wherein the half-depressed mode of the print operation button allows for a portion of pictures displayed on the display device to be selected as a print picture and stored in the memory device; and the full-depressed mode of the print operation button allows to start printing of the print picture.

Data processing device for camera-integrated VTR, printer thereof, and method for operating the printer

The present invention is capable of preventing the execution of a process, which a user does not intend to perform, when the position and size of each operation button image displayed on a screen are changed in accordance with a change in the aspect ratio of images. An aspect-ratio monitoring unitmonitors a change in the aspect ratio of moving images to be played back. A screen display control unitcontrols a method for displaying moving images displayed on a display on the basis of the determined aspect ratio. A button display control unitchanges the size of each operation button to be displayed superimposed on the images displayed in the display. A sensitive area setting unitsets an area (sensitive area) of a touch panel. An operation determining unitdetermines which operation button is operated by the user. A command generating unitgenerates a command signal corresponding to the determination by the operation determining unitand outputs the signal to at least one appropriate part. The present invention can be applied to, e.g., camcorders.

Information processing apparatus, method, and program

The present invention provides index information that can be handled with ease. Microcomputerreads out the video data recorded in video cassetteon the basis of the recording information on-the video data and generates index-related images on the basis of the read out video data. Then, it generates a retrieval-serving image to be used for retrieving the video data recorded in the video cassette, said retrieval-serving image containing the index-related images and the recording information of the video data corresponding to the index-related images, and conserves the retrieval-serving image data at least in internal memoryor in external memory. Thereafter, it displays the retrieval-serving image conserved in the internal memoryor the external memoryon image display section. As one of the index-related images contained in the retrieval-serving image that is displayed on the image display sectionis selected, it retrieves the corresponding video data on the basis of the corresponding recording information and reproduces the retrieved video data.

Data recording/reproduction apparatus with built-in camera and data recording/reproduction method

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kouji Komatsu