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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 24, 1999
Yukio Sugimura, Suita, JP;
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Moriguchi, JP;
Abstract
A digital VRT according to the present invention comprises means for intermittently writing an image picked up by a video camera into a memory, means for reading out, every time image data corresponding to a predetermined recording unit are stored in the memory, the image data corresponding to the recording unit from the memory and recording the image data on a video tape, and means for automatically rewinding the video tape to its beginning-of-tape when it is detected that the remaining amount of the video tape is not more than a predetermined amount. The image data written into the memory while the video tape is being rewound is recorded on the video tape after the rewinding.