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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 09, 1998
Soo Jang, Seoul, KR;
LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for determining when a tape or a head drum is controlled to resume recording after recording pause period in time-lapse video tape recorder, comprising the steps of confirming a recording time in a time-lapse recording mode set by a user; calculating the maximum storage time, or the time required to store video frames maximally in a field memory based on the recording time; calculating the time elapsed since the video frames begun to be stored in the field memory while keeping storing the video frames; confirming whether the elapsed time is equal to the maximum storage time minus a recording preparation period; either reloading the tape that has been unloaded or rotating the head drum that has been stopped so as to record the video frames in the field memory according to the confirmation result. Thus, the video frames which have been stored maximally in the field memory are retrieved and recorded on the tape successively without waiting time needed to be ready for recording such as the time for either loading the tape or rotating the head drum at a normal rotation speed.