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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 17, 1998
Hideshi Oeda, Suita, JP;
Masahiro Shioji, Neyagawa, JP;
Hideki Toyoda, Osaka, JP;
Masaru Higashide, Moriguchi, JP;
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Moriguchi, JP;
Abstract
An electronic image recording apparatus is a digital still camera, for example. If a camera mode is set by using a mode selecting button, an image signal from an imager is compressed and recorded into a flash memory. Then, if a sound button is depressed, during a constant time period, a sound signal to the image data is compressed and written into the memory. At this time, an address of an area in which the sound data is recorded is written in an image data area. If a continuous reproducing mode is set by the mode selecting button, a CPU reads first image data from the memory, and expands the image data and writes into a VRAM. Therefore, the first image data is displayed on an attached liquid crystal monitor. The CPU determines whether or not the recording address of the sound data is written in the image data area. When the address is recorded, a first sound data is read from the memory according to the address, and the first sound data is expanded and outputted on a speaker and etc. The sound data is recorded for the constant time period, and therefore, the CPU reproduces second image data after the first sound data is wholly reproduced.