Patent ID: 6977673
Filing Date: 2005-12-20
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital motion picture recorder, comprising: a housing sized to be portable for use by an individual; a camera mounted in the housing having an output for providing a full motion video signal; a decoder, mounted in the housing, for receiving the full motion video signal from the camera and for converting the full motion video signal into a sequence of digital still images; a digital, computer-readable and writeable random-access medium mounted in the housing, and connected to receive and store the sequence of digital still images from the decoder in a computer-readable file format and to provide digital still images stored thereon; means, in the housing, for enabling the individual to capture digital still images from the decoder into a plurality of data files on the digital, computer-readable and writeable random-access medium, wherein each of the plurality of data files stores a sequence of digital still images; an encoder mounted in the housing and having an input for receiving a sequence of digital still images, for generating as an output a full motion video signal; a switch mounted in the housing and having a first input for receiving digital still images from the decoder and a second input for receiving digital still images from the digital, computer-readable and writeable random-access medium, and an output connected to the input of the encoder; an interface on the housing for causing the switch to provide one of the first and second inputs as the sequence of digital still images to the input of the encoder; means, in the housing, for enabling the individual to specify a sequence of segments of the plurality of data files stored on the digital, computer-readable and writeable random-access medium; and means, in the housing, for enabling the individual to initiate playback of full motion video through the switch and the encoder using the digital still images from the plurality of data files stored on the digital, computer-readable and writeable random-access medium according to the specified sequence of segments of the plurality of data files.