Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toyokazu Aizawa

Shiro Nagaoka

Tatsuhiko Ikehata

Kuniaki Takahashi

Kei Tashiro

Katsuo Iwata

Takahisa Yoneyama

Kazushige Ooi

Tatsuro Abe

Hiroto Yoshihara

Takehiro Hiramatsu

According to one embodiment, there is provided a camera module formed with substantially the same scale as a chip of an image sensor, includes a lens held by a lens holder, an image sensor placed in a position in which an image is formed by the lens, and a wiring board disposed between the lens and the image sensor and electrically connected to the image sensor. An opening that permits light entering the image sensor to pass therethrough is formed in the wiring board. Further, a passive component is contained in the wiring board.

Camera module

From a time point at which a storage capacity reaches a certain remaining capacity with respect to a limit value of 4 GB per one file depending on a file system, a subtraction time-managing portion (A) changes photographing elapsed time display () which is displayed on a display picture of a liquid crystal display portion () to subtraction time display () in which residual time until 4 GB is reached is continuously subtracted in the inside of a portable image pickup device (). Hence, a photographer can be visually informed of timing at which the photographing blank time period will occur. As a result, the photographer can be previously given the opportunity for the judgment about whether the photographing should be continuously performed or the current photographing should be ended to start new photographing.

Portable image pickup device

A concept such as an album is introduced with respect to management and arrangement of image files, and several albums are electronically classified and managed for an electronic camera apparatus. According to one embodiment, a method comprises capturing an image, recording the image as an image file, creating a plurality of albums used for classifying and arranging the image file, and displaying album identifier information corresponding to each of the created plurality of albums during the shooting mode or the playback mode.

Electronic camera apparatus and operation guide

According to an embodiment of the invention, in a digital video camera using a non-tape recording medium, the user can select whether to save a moving image file in a divided form or as one file, when recording a moving image, by changing the function of a REC button. When one moving image file has been saved in a divided form, a moving image file to be reproduced is easily searched, and a moving image is quickly played from an object chapter, or from a divided sub-file.

Digital video camera and mode changing method

A motor itself has multi-functions to be able to drive a plurality of objects to be controlled, so that the whole apparatus is compact and provided at low cost. The rotation planes of first and second rotating units B1 and B2 are faced with each other to make these planes in a mutually pressed state. A current is supplied to a piezoelectric element provided on the rotation plane of any one or both of the first and second rotating units, and the rotation of any one of the first and second rotating units is selectively stopped by pressing members, so that any one of the rotating units can be selectively rotated.

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Sagamihara, Japan

Toyokazu Aizawa