DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a video camera capable of recording and reproducing in an ultra small size comparable to that of an 8 mm video cassette, and to realize a video camera system, constituted of the video camera and an external recording device, capable of recording long hours of video image data. SOLUTION: Image data photographed by a video camera 20 are compressed by a compression and decompression circuit 5, the compressed image data are recorded in an incorporated type semiconductor memory 6 or disk-type memory 13 fixed in the video camera 20 and the recorded image data are transferred to an external recording device 23. Further, the external recording device 23 records the transferred image data in a data storage while they are being compressed. The video camera 20 receives, decompresses and converts into a television signal the compressed image data read by the external recording device 23 in reproducing them. The present invention relates to a video camera with a recording and reproducing function capable of recording long hours of image data in an ultra small size, and a video camera using the same. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI