| US 7,545,410 B2 | ||
| Video camera system having remote commander | ||
| Hiroki Oka, Kanagawa (Japan); Toshiyuki Hisatsune, Kanagawa (Japan); Tetsu Sumii, Kanagawa (Japan); Osamu Sakurai, Kanagawa (Japan); and Shigeya Yasui, Kanagawa (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Sony Corporation, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Sep. 15, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/663,203. | ||
| Application 09/957900 is a division of application No. 09/059670, filed on Apr. 03, 1998, granted, now 6,556,240. | ||
| Application 10/663203 is a continuation of application No. 09/957900, filed on Sep. 21, 2001, granted, now 6,828,994. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 9-106946 (JP), filed on Apr. 24, 1997. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2004/0051788 A1, Mar. 18, 2004 | ||
| Int. Cl. H04N 5/232 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 348—211.2 | 40 Claims |
| 1. An image pickup system comprising a commander, a video camera and a display device;
wherein said commander is shaped so as to be held by a user in one hand, said commander includes:
a microphone for obtaining an audio signal;
command information storing means for storing a plurality of kinds of command information;
command information generating means for generating a plurality of kinds of command information which correspond to a plurality
of different operations performed by a user, the generation of the command information being carried out on the basis of said
plurality of kinds of command information which are stored in said command information storing means; and
transmitting means for transmitting said command information as transmitted information;
wherein said video camera includes:
image pickup means for obtaining an image pickup signal by imaging an object;
receiving means for receiving said transmitted information;
recording and reproducing means for recording and reproducing said image pickup signal to and from a recording medium;
image information storing means for storing a plurality of kinds of image information;
display-ready video signal generating means for generating a display-ready video signal by combining either of the image pickup
signal obtained by said image pickup means or the image pickup signal reproduced from said recording medium by said recording
and reproducing means and said image information;
transmitting means for transmitting said display-ready video signal; and
controlling means for controlling said image pickup means, said recording and reproducing means and said display-ready video
signal generating means in accordance with any one of a plurality of operation modes; and
wherein said display device includes:
receiving means for receiving said display-ready video signal transmitted from said transmitting means of said video camera;
and
displaying means for displaying an image represented by the received display-ready video signal,
wherein the microphone is extendible and retractable, an extending position and a retracting position switching an operation
mode of the image pickup system,
wherein the commander has a mark/click key member, an operation of the mark/click member in a recording mode being interpreted
by the video camera as a marking operation, the same operation of the mark/click key member in an edit mode being interpreted
by the video camera as a mouse click.
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