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Video camera printer apparatus and method of controlling same and apparatus and method for detecting print inhibit signal

US5625411A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 21, 1995
Grant dateApr 29, 1997
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Expiry dateJun 21, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N2201/3287
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Video signals are recorded in such a manner that prints having a high picture quality can be obtained while not interfering with playback of images in the form of a movie. A CCD is controlled in such a manner that exposure is performed at a shutter speed of 1/250 of a second, one time in exposures performed a plurality of times in succession, and at a shutter speed of 1/60 of a second at other times. The video signal outputted by the CCD is applied to a combining circuit via a CDS, AGC and signal processing circuit for an image sensing system. A PI signal generating circuit outputs a PI signal, which represents inhibition of printing, in the case where exposure is carried out at the shutter speed of 1/60 of a second, and the combining circuit superposes the PI signal upon the video signal, which has been obtained by exposure at the shutter speed of 1/60 of a second, in the vertical blanking interval of this video signal. The output of the combining circuit is applied to a recording playback head via a signal processing circuit for a recording system, whereby the output is recorded on a videotape.

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