Patent ID: 6084632
Filing Date: 2000-07-04
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A printer apparatus comprising:a print-inhibit signal detecting device for detecting a print inhibit signal, superposed in a vertical blanking interval of a video signal, wherein a second video signal, which represents an image of a subject photographed at a high shutter speed, has been inserted once every plurality of frames of a first video signal, representing the image of the subject photographed at an ordinary shutter speed relatively lower than the high shutter speed and including a print inhibit signal which inhibits printing of an image of the corresponding first video signal, the print inhibit signal being superposed in a vertical blanking interval of the first video signal;a memory control device for controlling, based upon the print inhibit signal detected by said print-inhibit signal detecting device, storage of a further video signal which does not contain the detected print inhibit signal in a corresponding vertical blanking interval, in a memory; anda printing device for reading the stored video signal out of said memory based upon control performed by said memory control device, and printing an image represented by the read-out video signal.