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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 1998
Filed:
Feb. 21, 1996
Tetsuya Hashimoto, Ichikawa, JP;
Hiroki Fukuoka, Yokohama, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An electronic camera for connection to an external device such as a personal computer. The camera captures both images and audio which are associated with the images. The image and associated audio are written into a memory of the camera along with information describing the relationship between the image and audio. In this manner, the image can be played or presented at the same time as the audio is presented to a user. When the image and associated audio are transmitted out of the camera to an external device such as a personal computer, no information is transmitted describing the relationship between the image and audio. The image and audio are received by the external device and written into memory. The relationship between the image and audio can be determined by the fact that the image and audio were transmitted at the same time as a unit of information. Subsequently, information describing the relationship between the image and audio is written into a memory of the external device along with the image and audio.