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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 28, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hiroshi Hosoe, Yokohama, JP;
Kyoji Tamura, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/76 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/76 ;
Abstract
In an image recording apparatus and method, when photographing images and recording the photographed images in a recording medium, by arranging so as to perform a plurality of different kinds of retrieval operations for the images recorded in the recording medium in accordance with respective operational modes of the apparatus, it is possible to promptly retrieve unnecessary recorded data during a photographing operation of recording moving images in a randomly accessible recording medium.