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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 1997
Filed:
Feb. 22, 1994
Mikio Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Kenji Moronaga, Tokyo, JP;
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A picture recording apparatus includes a first storage having storing units, or clusters, each of which has a predetermined capacity for accommodating video data, and thereby writing video data in the first storage on a cluster basis. An inputting section receives video data to be stored in the first storage. A second storage stores in a predetermined order address data each designating, from among the clusters of the first storage, a particular unoccupied cluster. A controller searches, before writing video data in the first storage, for unoccupied clusters and writes in the second storage first address data which designate clusters necessary for accommodating the video data. A data amount determining section determines the amount of video data outputted by the inputting section and outputs, when the amount of video data matches a single cluster, a first signal for commanding the writing of the video data to the next cluster and a second signal for inhibiting the outputting operation of the inputting section. An address generating section is responsive to the first signal for reading address data representative of the next storing unit out of the second storage, generates a real address on the basis of the address data, and feeds the real address to the first storage. A selecting section selects either one of the output signals of the address generating section and inputting section and selectively feeds either one of the selected output signals and the address data outputted by the controller to the first storage.