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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 15, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2009
Takayuki Haraguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Kentaro Ohkawa, Tokyo, JP;
Kenichiro Sugimoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An object of the invention is to provide an image record apparatus and an image record method that can improve the use efficiency of a record medium for recording a video image from a camera. A NW control section () acquires the image quality and the resolution set in a camera () performing pre-record and calculates the maximum image size that can be transmitted by the camera (), and a file system () calculates the number of images from the preset pre-record rate and pre-record time and reserves an area corresponding to the maximum image size of one pre-record image calculated by the NW control section () in an HDD (). The NW control section () records a pre-record image transmitted from the camera () in the area reserved by the file system (). When it records as many pre-record images as the number of pre-record images, it returns to the beginning of the area reserved by the file system () and continues recording a pre-record image is continued. When an alarm occurs while a pre-record image is recorded, the NW control sectiondetermines that the pre-record image at the point in time is pre-record data.