Patent ID: 7623754
Filing Date: 2009-11-24
Classification: G03B,G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital motion picture recorder, comprising: a housing sized to be portable for use by an individual; a motion picture camera mounted in the housing, and providing a motion video signal as an output; recording circuitry, mounted in the housing, that converts the motion video signal into a sequence of digital still images; a digital, computer-readable and writable random-access medium mounted in the housing and connected to receive and store sequences of digital still images from the recording circuitry in data files in a computer-readable file format; a motion picture editing system within the housing configured to enable the individual to specify a sequence of segments of the sequence of digital still images stored on the digital, computer-readable and writable random-access medium, wherein the motion picture editing system enables the individual: playback circuitry, mounted in the housing, that plays at least a portion of the specified sequence of segments by reading the sequences of digital still images stored on the digital, computer-readable and writable random-access medium, according to the specified sequence of segments, to generate a motion video signal therefrom.