Patent ID: 8477850

Claim:
A module which compresses and encodes a plurality of images for recording onto a recording medium, or an image recording apparatus or an image recording system including the module, comprising: at least two first and second types of an image input module which captures an image of one or more frames from a video signal source, and converts the image into digital image data for output; an image input arbitration module which arbitrates an order of the digital image data provided by the at least two first and second types of the image input module to ensure that the digital image data provided by the first type is placed before the digital image data provided by the second type, wherein the first type of the image input module is provided with a real-time image, the image recording apparatus or the image recording system further comprises: a memory module which temporarily stores the real-time image by a processing time for the image input arbitration module to process the digital image data provided by the second type of the image input module an image encoding module which compresses and encodes the digital image data, and the image encoding module changes a processing speed to perform a process of compression and encoding more in real time.