Patent ID: 6597397
Filing Date: 2003-07-22
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
A digital still camera for receiving a cassette having optical tape comprising:(a) an image sensor for capturing an image; (b) optical means for focusing an image of a subject onto the image sensor which in response thereto captures such image; (c) means for receiving the optical tape cassette; (d) a rotatable optical head including a write motor and an optical write head for writing circular data tracks; (e) a write displacement actuator for displacing the rotatable optical head relative to the optical tape to write sequentially displaced circular tracks on the optical tape while the optical tape is stationary in the digital still camera; (f) means for advancing the optical tape to place a recording area for each captured image into operative relationship with the optical head; and (g) means coupled to the image sensor and the optical write head for causing the optical write head to effect changes in the optical properties of the optical tape in accordance with the image captured by the image sensor.