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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 1991
Filed:
Aug. 21, 1989
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A video recording apparatus having a built-in type camera which includes an imager for picking up an object and a recorder for recording a video signal derived from the imager in accordance with a predetermined format having an analog-to-digital converter for converting the video signal from the image to digital image data, a memory for storing the digital image data, a converting circuit for converting the image data read out from the memory to an image signal, a superimposing circuit for superimposing the image signal formed of the image data upon the video signal from the imager, a control circuit for controlling the writing and reading of the image data in the memory, a first operation switch for causing the control circuit to store the image data in the memory, a second operation switch for causing the control circuit to superimpose the image signal upon the video signal, and a third operation switch causing the control circuit to designate the color of the image signal, wherein when the second operation switch is in its OFF-state, the third operation switch is operated as a selection switch of other camera mode functions.