Patent ID: 7489853
Filing Date: 2009-02-10
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging device for adding auxiliary information to digital data, said imaging device comprising: an interface device operable to receive an externally generated image input an information button operable to input auxiliary information indicating a degree of importance of digital data, according to user operation; an imaging unit operable to capture and photoelectrically convert an image into an image signal when said interface device receives the externally generated image input; a coding device operable to generate first digital data by compressing the image signal created by said imaging unit when said interface device receives the externally generated image input; a selection unit operable to select an instruction of how to record the auxiliary information for (i) an important scene, (ii) a change of shooting location, and (iii) a predetermined time; and a digital data generation device operable to combine, at a time when the auxiliary information is input and the image is captured and photoelectrically converted into the image signal by said imaging unit, the auxiliary information received at the time with the first digital data corresponding to the image captured and photoelectrically converted by said imaging unit at the time, according to the instruction selected by the selection unit, to produce second digital data comprising the combined auxiliary information and first digital data, and output the second digital data to a recording device or a transmission device.