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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 23, 1998
Harumi Aoki, Tokyo, JP;
Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An electronic still video camera has an electro-developing recording medium. As soon as an optical image is formed on the medium, the image is recorded and developed as a visible image therein. The developed image is electronically read as image data by a line sensor, and the read image data may be stored in an IC memory card, a floppy disk, a hard disk or the like. Optionally, the read image data may be transferred from the camera to an external device such as a computer, a TV monitor or the like. The developed image can be thermally erased from the medium by using an electric heater. When one of the formation of the optical image on the medium is carried out, the reading of the image data from the developed image of the medium, and the erasing of the developed image from the medium is carried out, the remaining operations are enabled.