Patent ID: 7623754

Claim:
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: a. to select a plurality of data files from among the data files, b. to define a segment from each of the selected data files, wherein each segment is defined by a reference to the selected data file storing a selected sequence of digital still images and by points designated in the selected sequence of digital still images, wherein the points may be designated at any digital still image, and c. to order the defined segments into the sequence of segments; and 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.