Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Audio-Video Engineering Co.

Takaaki Suyama

Hideki Mimura

Akira Yamauchi

Shuichi Hisatomi

Fumio Izawa

Mikio Kakizaki

Tomoko Ono

Koji Maruyama

Toshiaki Sato

Kazuo Konishi

Shimpei Yoshioka

Setsuo Terasaki

Hiroaki Matsubara

The invention is based on an electronic still camera for converting a taken optical image of the subject into digital image data, and recording into a memory card incorporating semiconductor memories, in which the digital image data obtained from this electronic still camera is stored in a large-capacity recording medium through an exclusive recording device, or displayed in plural monitors, or stored in a disk or magnetic tape by existing recording devices or even compressed, expanded, edited or processed, so that it may satisfy versatile requests of users sufficiently.

Image data processing apparatus for processing and transferring data from memory cards to external devices

Image data processing apparatus for digitally reproducing optical image

Image data processing apparatus that automatically sets a data

A memory card apparatus using EEPROMs as semiconductor memories. Externally input data are temporarily recorded in a buffer memory and are subsequently written in the EEPROMs. Verify processing is automatically performed between the buffer memory and the EEPROMs. Similarly, data read out from the EEPROMs are temporarily recorded in the buffer memory and are subsequently output to an external unit. Even with the EEPROMs, it seems that this memory card can be used in the same manner as a memory card using an SRAM, when viewed from the outside of the card.

Memory card apparatus using EEPROMS for storing data and an interface

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Yokohama, Japan

Takaaki Suyama