| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 348231100 | Available memory space detection | 21 |
| 20080198241 | IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS - An image capture apparatus includes an image capture unit, a writing unit, a calculation unit, and a determination unit. The image capture unit captures an image. The writing unit writes the captured image in a recording medium. The calculation unit calculates a number of free clusters in the recording medium. The determination unit determines whether the recording medium has been removed from the image capture apparatus. If the determination unit determines that the recording medium has been removed from the image capture apparatus, a free space in the recording medium is calculated from the calculated number of free clusters. If the determination unit determines that the recording medium has not been removed from the image capture apparatus, the number of free clusters from a predetermined area in the recording medium is acquired and the free space in the recording medium is calculated from the acquired number of free clusters. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20090231466 | Dynamic Optimization of Memory Use in a Digital Recording Device - A method for dynamically optimizing the memory use in a digital recording device. The disclosed method includes recording a plurality of digital files collected by said digital recording device on a recording medium and assigning each file of said plurality of recorded digital files a priority ranking of high, medium or low based on at least one predetermined criteria. The method also includes recording additional digital files on the recording medium and compressing the files assigned a low priority ranking when the recording medium reaches a first predetermined threshold of the recording medium's total storage capacity. The method further includes compressing the files assigned a medium priority ranking when the recording medium reaches a predetermined threshold in the recording medium's total storage capacity and deleting files designated as low priority files when the recording medium reaches a predetermined threshold in the recording medium's total storage capacity. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20100020195 | Method Of Operating Camera Timing Module - A method of operating a timer module includes the steps of querying a non-volatile memory module to determine available digital image storage locations, each storage location having assigned thereto an image number; receiving a selection selecting one of the available digital image storage location as a starting location, and assigning an image number corresponding to the starting location as a starting image number; determining a number of image storage locations having an image number equal to or greater than the starting image number; instructing the image capture module to capture images a number of times equal to the number of image storage locations having an image number equal to or greater than the starting image number; transferring an image to the memory module each time the image capture module captures an image, the image being transferred into the memory module at a storage location corresponding to the starting image number; and updating the starting image number to correspond to a consecutively subsequent storage location. When a plurality of non-volatile memory modules are provided, a memory module physically closest to the image capture module is completely filled first before a memory module that is next closest to the image capture module is filled. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100110227 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD - An image capturing apparatus represented by digital camera | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100134654 | DIGITAL CAMERA - A digital camera includes: an imaging unit that obtains image data by capturing an image of a subject; a recording control unit that records the image data obtained by capturing the image of the subject into a plurality of recording media; a speed detection unit that detects access speeds at each of the plurality of recording media; and a selection unit that selects the recording media, into which image data are to be recorded by the recording control unit, based upon each of the access speeds having been detected, wherein: at least one of the plurality of recording media is an exchangeable recording medium. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100157095 | METHOD FOR DELETING DATA FILES IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The present invention relates to a an electronic device such as a digital camera | 06-24-2010 |
| 20110050952 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS WITH IMPROVED CONTINUOUS SHOOTING SPEED - An image capturing apparatus includes a shutter spring which urges a shutter drive member for driving shutter blades, a shutter charge unit which is used to charge the shutter spring, and is switched between a fixed state in which a charge operation of the shutter spring is complete, and the shutter drive member is fixed and a released state, and a drive unit which drives the shutter charge unit. When a second determination unit determines that a switching ready state of a mirror from a mirror-down state to a mirror-up state is set when a first determination unit determines that a charge operation of the shutter spring is complete, the drive unit is controlled to drive the shutter charge unit to the released state without latch the shutter charge unit in the fixed state after the charge operation of the shutter spring is complete. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110050953 | METHOD OF SETTING IMAGE ASPECT RATIO ACCORDING TO SCENE RECOGNITION AND DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD - A method of setting a ratio of an input image according to scene recognition and a digital photographing apparatus for performing the method, the method including: generating an input image; recognizing a scene from the input image; and setting a ratio of the input image according to the recognized scene. A digital photographing apparatus that sets a ratio of an input image according to scene recognition, the apparatus including an image generating unit configured to generate an input image; a scene recognition unit configured to recognize a scene from the input image; and an image aspect ratio setting unit configured to set an aspect ratio of the input image according to the recognized scene. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110122290 | DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A digital photographing apparatus and a method of controlling the same. A method of controlling a digital photographing apparatus, the method including determining whether a condition for changing an environment setup of the digital photographing apparatus is satisfied; if the condition is satisfied, searching for an environment setup to be changed according to the condition; and changing the environment setup according to the condition. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110187894 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A recording apparatus records data in a recording medium which has a plurality of blocks and includes an alternative block for a defect block, in accordance with a recording unit of a set data amount. The recording apparatus sets the data amount of the recording unit based on an alternative block remaining amount in the recording medium. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110193991 | RECORDING APPARATUS, IMAGING AND RECORDING APPARATUS, RECORDING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is a recording apparatus including: an input section configured to input data to be recorded; and a recording control section configured to reserve a recording region beforehand on recording media by updating file management information about the recording media to which the data is to be recorded, the recording control section being further configured such that when the data input through the input section has reached a predetermined data amount, the recording control section records the input data to the reserved region. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110242360 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE IMAGING APPARATUS - In a frame recording mode for shooting a moving image including the predetermined number of frames in one shot or an interval recording mode, if a time length available for recording a moving image becomes less than predetermined time, not the recordable time but the number of times capable of shooting a moving image including the predetermined number of frames is displayed as information about a remaining capacity of a recording medium. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110273586 | VIDEO RECORDING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A video recording apparatus is provided that can provide the user with information as to whether or not scheduled image captures will fit into a recording medium or information as to how many retakes are possible. The apparatus obtains, for each scene to be captured, the duration of a cut to be captured from scenario information in which the duration of each of the cuts constituting the scene is specified. The recordable duration is calculated from the remaining capacity of the recording medium in which video data is to be recorded and a recording bit rate of the video data, and the number of image captures that can be taken for the cut to be captured is calculated from the calculated recordable duration and the obtained duration. The calculated recordable duration and the calculated number of image captures that can be taken are displayed on a display unit. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20120162468 | DIGITAL CAMERA WITH EXTERNAL STORAGE MEDIUM DETECTOR - A digital camera comprises an imaging device; an internal memory; an attachment device that attaches a storage medium; a medium detector that detects whether the storage medium attached to the attachment device is a storage medium limiting overwrite; and a record control device that controls so as to store image data taken by the imaging device in the storage medium attached to the attachment device. When the medium detector detects that the storage medium attached to the attachment device is the storage medium limiting overwrite, the record control device controls so as to store data management information of the image data recorded in the storage medium limiting overwrite in the internal memory. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20140132798 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE NUMBER OF AVAILABLE SHOTS AND IMAGE-SHOOTING APPARATUS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for determining the number of available shots and an image-shooting apparatus. The method includes: determining a current shooting mode; acquiring an average value of a picture size before current shooting in the current shooting mode, where the average value of the picture size is calculated according to storage space occupied by pictures shot before the current shooting in the current shooting mode and the number of the pictures shot before the current shooting in the current shooting mode; and determining, according to currently available storage space and the average value of the picture size, the number of available shots before the current shooting. The technical solution of the present invention improves precision of the determined number of available shots. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140176762 | Storage Device, Digital Camera Device, and Method for Displaying an Alert Image - A storage device, digital camera device, and method for displaying an alert image are disclosed. In one embodiment, a storage device is provided having an interface, a memory, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine if an alert condition has occurred and, if the alert condition has occurred, to display an alert image on a display device of the digital camera device when the digital camera device displays images stored in the memory. Some or all of these acts can be performed by the digital camera device instead of the storage device. Other embodiments are possible, and each of the embodiments can be used alone or together in combination. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140192228 | DIGITAL IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, MEDIUM FOR RECORDING THE METHOD, AND DIGITAL IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS - Provided is a digital image signal processing method, a recording medium for recording the method, and a digital image signal processing apparatus, in which a storage area of a memory may be efficiently used and an image desired by a user can be stored even when the storage area of the memory is insufficient. According to the present invention, a scene of an image may be recognized and a resolution and an image quality may be modified according to the recognized scene, thereby efficiently using the storage area of the memory. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20150334264 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image capturing apparatus comprising an image capturing unit, a generating unit which generates RAW image data with an image obtained by the image capturing unit, wherein the generating unit sequentially generates RAW image data of a plurality of pictures in a continuous shooting mode, a storage unit temporarily storing the RAW image data, a first development unit performing development processing on the RAW image data, a recording unit recording, onto a recording medium, first image data obtained by the first development unit and the RAW image data and a control unit, in the continuous shooting mode, performing control so that the first development unit does not perform the development processing on the RAW image data if free storage space of the storage unit available for storing the RAW image data is smaller than a first threshold. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150365644 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An image capturing apparatus comprises: an image-capturing unit acquiring RAW image data indicating a pre-development image from an image signal; recording unit encoding the RAW image data by a predetermined encoding method and recording the encoded RAW image data in a medium; a developing unit reading out the encoded RAW image data and developing the read encoded RAW image data; and a control unit comparing an amount of the encoded RAW image data that was recorded in a shooting time period with an amount of the encoded RAW image data that was read out from the medium so as to be used in development, and controlling an encoding method by which the RAW image data is encoded according to a comparison result. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20160044275 | SINGLE-USE DIGITAL CAMERA - A single-use digital camera is disclosed. The one-time-use digital camera includes a camera body and a battery cartridge. When the battery cartridge is connected to the camera body, the camera body is activated by the battery cartridge. When the battery cartridge is separated from the camera body or when a predetermined amount of pictures stored in the camera body are downloaded, the camera body is deactivated and the battery cartridge is locked. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160155476 | EVENT DATA RECORDER WITH COMMUNICATION MODULE AND METHOD THEREOF | 06-02-2016 |
