Sony Corporation

Satoru Gozu

Syoji Mitsuhashi

Katsuhisa Ono

Hitoshi Kamoda

Koichi Sawada

Yoshiaki Ogawara

Yasuo Ido

A print apparatus includes a print unit that records a print pattern with a thermal head and a ribbon film, the ribbon film having a base film on which transfer-material areas and margin areas including cue marks are arranged; a cue-mark detector that detects the cue marks; a ribbon-moving mechanism that moves the ribbon film on which the transfer-material areas and the cue marks are arranged such that L&#x3c;Lis satisfied, where Lis a distance between the leading edge of each transfer-material area and the corresponding cue mark and Lis a distance between a transfer position and a cue-mark detection position; and a ribbon movement controller that monitors the cue-mark detection and moves the ribbon film backward by a distance corresponding to the difference between the distances Land L, thereby positioning the ribbon film with respect to a print start position.

Print apparatus, ribbon movement control device, ribbon film, ribbon movement control method, and program

A method of processing picture data, by an electronic still camera, that includes forming image data of an object, displaying the image data as a picture on a display, recording the image data in memory in response to a first switching operation, and reproducing and displaying the recorded image data in response to a second switching operation. The first and second switching operations are carried out by a two-level push button switch.

Electronic still camera with dual contact shutter switch for picture review

While the EE mode is set to continuously display a picture signal on a display unit, (a) a control unit energizes a shutter and a picture data recording and reproducing unit to take a still picture of an object and record the picture data on a memory in the picture data recording and reproducing unit, when a second contact of a shutter button is energized, and (b) the control unit energizes a switching circuit and the picture data recording and reproducing unit to reproduce the picture data recorded in the memoryand display it on the display unit, when a first contact of the shutter button is energized and the energization is continued for a predetermined time.

Electronic still camera with dual contact shutter switch for picture

In a magnetic disk recorder, a displacement of recording timings of a video signal and a timebase-compressed audio signal on a master disk can be corrected on a slave disk. When an output of a master disk reproducing apparatus is a video signal, a vertical synchronizing signal from a synchronizing separating circuit is delayed by a delay time of substantially 7H (H is the horizontal period) and supplied to a phase servo circuit in a slave disk recording apparatus as a reference signal, while when the output of the master disk reproducing apparatus is the timebase-compressed audio signal, a start flag signal accompanying with the timebase-compressed audio signal is detected by a flag detecting circuit and the start flag signal thus detected is employed as a pseudo vertical synchronizing signal, which is supplied to the phase servo circuit in the slave disk recording circuit as a reference signal.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Satoru Gozu