Abstract: According to one embodiment, a camera apparatus includes a reproduction control unit reproducing a shot video after a plurality of index images using “I” frames extracted at predetermined intervals from moving image data for reproducing the shot video are generated and displayed, when reproducing the shot video.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a camera apparatus includes a chapter data generating unit generating chapter data specifying a reproduction start point of moving image data corresponding to a time point at which a scene change occurs, when the scene change occurs during generation of the moving image data indicating a shot video.

Abstract: There is disclosed a digital still camera in which a direction and speed of a tracing operation by user's fingertips on a touch panel are judged and a dynamic image reproduction process is executed in accordance with the direction and speed. For example, fast forward/rewind reproduction of a dynamic image is executed in response to a long and fast tracing operation to the right from the left or to the left from the right.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a camera device includes; a moving image data generating device generating moving image data with preceding data, which has moving image data indicating a shot video and preceding data thereof indicating a preceding image reproduced prior to the moving image data; a title data generating device generating title data indicating a title to be inserted into the moving image data with preceding data; and a data replacement unit replacing data for title insertion having the data size as of the title data of the preceding data in the moving image data with preceding data with the title data generated by the title data generating device.

Abstract: In an image pick-up apparatus of the invention, when capturing is started, a chapter formation-commanding portion transfers a chapter table to a memory. When a user depresses a chapter formation button, a chapter is formed in an empty table of the chapter table. After completion of the capturing, the chapter formation-commanding portion transfers the chapter table stored in the memory to a storage portion. By performing the operation described above, a chapter can be formed in an arbitrary time position.

Abstract: The invention provides a portable image pickup device which is capable of solving the lengthening of an activation time caused in accordance with a structure of a file system. When an operating system is activated, unused cluster information corresponding to real data stored in a hard disc drive (105) is acquired from an FSINFO region (103). Hence, it is possible to omit a work for retrieving an FAT region (124) in processing for initializing a file system, and thus it is possible to shorten a time required to initialize the file system. As a result, it is possible to shorten a time required for processing for activating the operating system, and it is possible to enhance mobility from a phase in which a power source of a portable image pickup device (1) is turned ON to a phase in which the portable image pickup device (1) becomes available.

Abstract: An embodiment of a camera apparatus includes an image display control unit, which displays a moving image in a reduced state while displaying multiple reduced images in a display unit for displaying images held in a recording unit having an image file, when a moving image is included in the multiple reduced images and playback of the moving image is selected. This permits playing a moving image continuously in a reduced state, when the moving image is included in multiple reduced images.

Abstract: An embodiment of the invention is to record a predetermined information on a recording medium by connecting to a predetermined interface, so that an image signal held on a recording medium is readable from an external storage unit provided separately from the recording medium, and the recording medium is recognizable, when displaying a digital video camera in a list of recording media in an image recording/processing unit that is an external unit when viewed from the digital video camera, in order to provide a digital video camera, in which a recording medium itself included in the digital video camera is recognizable by an image recording/processing unit.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a capturing apparatus includes a capturing unit configured to capture a moving image video, a storage unit configured to store the moving image video captured by the capturing unit, an operation unit configured to include a plurality of keys used to instruct playback of the moving image video stored in the storage unit, a skip playback unit configured to play back the moving image video while skipping the moving image video at predetermined time intervals every time a predetermined operation is made on the operation unit, and a playback control unit configured to switch the time intervals skipped by the skip playback unit based on the total playback time period of the moving image video.

Abstract: At least one image file containing an image to be printed is selected from the image files recorded in a recording medium, for example, HDD by a user. Then a camera and a printer are connected. Responsive to a file information transmission request that requests the transmission of all image files recorded in a media, a digital camera transmits only the file information and the file ID of each of the image files selected by the user to the printer. After authentication, the digital camera transmits the file. ID of each of all the selected image files responsive to a file ID transmission request that requests the transmission of image files to be printed, from the printer.

Abstract: Based on a detection signal from a drop sensor, it is determined whether or not an apparatus is actually dropping. When the apparatus is determined to be dropping, access to a HDD for recording or reading is forbidden, while when the apparatus is determined not to be dropping, the access is allowed. When the access is allowed, a process which is performed immediately before the access is forbidden is resumed.

Abstract: According to an embodiment of the invention, in a digital video camera using a non-tape recording medium, the user can select whether to save a moving image file in a divided form or as one file, when recording a moving image, by changing the function of a REC button. When one moving image file has been saved in a divided form, a moving image file to be reproduced is easily searched, and a moving image is quickly played from an object chapter, or from a divided sub-file.

Abstract: One embodiment of an invention provides a method of creating a database of positions of file management information, or start positions of file data of each file, in a file system, and an apparatus configured to realize the method. According to an embodiment of the invention, the existence of an image file indicated in a specific file format is searched according to file management information indicating file formats, when playback of an image is instructed, and the management information is stored in a database when the existence of management information expressed in a specific format is searched. Information which indicates a record start position of an image file in a recording unit, given the management information of a higher-order folder including the stored management information, is stored in a database.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a camera apparatus comprises an adapter connecting section. The adapter connecting section can be connected to a cradle. An arbitrary number of external recording apparatuses are connected to the camera apparatus via the cradle. An image signal stored in a recording medium of the camera apparatus can be output to the external recording apparatuses via the cradle through a LAN. A monitor section of the camera apparatus can display the arbitrary number of external recording apparatuses, to which the image signal stored in the recording medium of the camera apparatus can be transferred.

Abstract: A camera apparatus of one embodiment of the invention, a recording area including a recording capacity corresponding to a recording capacity of a semiconductor memory is detachable from or preliminarily built in the camera apparatus or a record medium prepared in an externally connected recorder, is provided in a recording area of a hard disk drive. Data groups stored in the recording area including a recording capacity set to be at most the recording capacity of the new recording area corresponding to the semiconductor memory prepared in the externally connected recorder, able to be transferred to the semiconductor memory or the externally connected recorder, by one operation, as a single unit of the data group stored in the new recording area.

Abstract: A camera includes a storage unit which stores an imaged image on a first recording medium as an image file, a selection unit which arbitrarily selects an image from images stored on the first recording medium, a copy unit which copies the selected image to a second recording medium, and a history file creation unit which creates a list of the copied image as a history file and stores the history file on the first recording medium.

Abstract: An image file recorded on an HDD of an electronic camera device is selected by the user and a list of file names of a plurality of selected images is formed as a backup list. If the order of the file names registered in the backup list is specified, the file names are arranged in a specified order. The thus formed backup list is transmitted to an external recording equipment. A plurality of image files (image data) selected by the user are transferred to the external recording equipment according to the order described in the backup list and integrated as moving picture data.

Abstract: In an embodiment of a camera apparatus according to the invention, a playback streaming signal which is output from a recording medium and in a compressed state is transferred to a map defined in a memory, the transferred playback streaming signal is decoded by a decoder, and converted to a YUV signal in an image processor, and transferred to a map as a YUV signal, a magnified or reduced image is generated from the YUV signal by an image processor, and stored on a map, the magnified or reduced image prepared on a map is overlaid according to a magnify playback request, the overlaid image is output to seek an output position, and the image is erased by gradually increasing the transmissivity of a reduced image, when an instruction is not input for predetermined time.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image acquisition apparatus includes a removable recording medium which is attached to a recording medium requiring certain time for starting up, and configured to record data when only a system program is started, an image processing unit which generates an image signal to be recorded, a switching control unit which causes the attached recording medium to record an image signal generated by the image processing unit during startup of the attached recording medium, wherein information can be recorded in a short time after a main power supply is turned on.

Abstract: An embodiment of a camera apparatus includes transferring a compressed playback streaming signal output from a recording medium to a map defined in a memory circuit, decoding the transferred playback streaming signal by a decoder, converting the decoded signal to a YUV signal in an image processing unit, transferring the converted signal to the map as a YUV signal, generating a magnified or reduced image from the YUV signal in the image processing unit, and storing the image on the map, overlaying a magnified or reduced image prepared on the map according to a magnified playback request, and outputting the overlaid image for seeking an output position.