| US 7,489,348 B2 | ||
| Digital camera for recording a still image while shooting moving image | ||
| Shigeyuki Okada, Ogaki (Japan); Hiroshi Hanafusa, Hirakata (Japan); and Noriaki Kojima, Ogaki (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Moriguchi-shi (Japan) | ||
| Appl. No. 10/148,886 PCT Filed Dec. 18, 2000, PCT No. PCT/JP00/08977 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Oct. 18, 2002, PCT Pub. No. WO01/49026, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 05, 2001. |
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| Claims priority of application No. 11-365978 (JP), filed on Dec. 24, 1999; application No. 2000-071782 (JP), filed on Mar. 15, 2000; and application No. 2000-095699 (JP), filed on Mar. 30, 2000. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2003/0112340 A1, Jun. 19, 2003 | ||
| Int. Cl. H04N 5/76 (2006.01); H04N 5/222 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 348—231.2 [348/333.02] | 16 Claims |
| 1. A digital camera capable of instructing to shoot a still image during shooting of a moving image, the digital camera characterized
in that it comprises:
a storage unit which includes a plurality of memory areas to sequentially store on a frame by frame basis image data input
during shooting of the moving image;
a display control unit which generates an image signal by which the input image data stored in the storage unit are displayed
on a display; and
a control unit which controls a series of processings,
wherein said control unit controls the input and output of the storage unit such that the storage unit stores the image data
input during shooting of the moving image, sequentially filling the plurality of the memory areas in a cyclic manner, and,
in response to a still image recording instruction signal received during shooting of the moving image, the control unit skips
a specific memory area of the storage unit and assigns still image data of a frame to the specific memory area of the storage
unit and temporarily stores the still image data in the specific memory area, and
wherein said control unit instructs the display control unit to display the stored still image data.
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