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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2001
Akihiko Imai, Kyoto, JP;
Kazutaka Sakamoto, Hirakata, JP;
Optex Co., Ltd., Shiga, JP;
Abstract
The digital image recording system of the present invention comprises event storage unit for storing, on occurrence of an event, the order of such occurrence, importance level storage unit for storing the importance level of the event, and image acquisition unit for sequentially importing the image information from a plurality of image taking unit connection with each event and recording it in accordance with the information stored in these storage unit. On generation of an alarm, the image acquisition unit also stores, by multiprocessing, alarm image information provided from corresponding image taking unit. On occurrence of an event, the event storage unit stores the channel number for the corresponding image taking unit in the order of event occurrence, but does not additionally store such channel if the event storage unit already contains the same channel number as the one for the image taking unit in connection with the event occurrence.