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US 2001/0055070 A1Published application
Digital camera, mobile terminal, and method of displaying images
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorKazumitsu Watanabe
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Abstract
The digital camera includes a photographing unit which picks-up image data, a storage control unit which stores the image data, a reconstruction control unit which reconstructs the stored image data, an image data processing unit which combines the picked-up image data and the reconstructed image data, and stores the produced image data into the recording medium, a display control unit makes a display unit simultaneously display the picked-up image data for monitoring and the reconstructed image data, or makes the display unit display the image data generated by the image data processing unit.
Claims20
A digital camera comprising:
- a photographing unit which picks-up an image and obtains image data;
- a storage control unit which stores the image data in the form of an image data file in a predetermined manner in a recording medium;
- a reconstruction control unit which reconstructs the image data stored in said recording medium;
- an image data processing unit which combines the image data picked-up by said photographing unit and the image data reconstructed by said reconstruction control unit to produce an image data, and makes said recording medium store the produced image data;
- a display unit which displays the images;
- a display control unit which makes said display unit simultaneously display the image data obtained by said photographing unit for monitoring and the image data reconstructed by said reconstruction control unit, or which makes said display unit display the image data produced by said image data processing unit;
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- an operational instruction inputting unit which provides operational instruction signals to said photographing unit, said storage control unit, said image data processing unit, and said display control unit.
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A digital camera comprising:
- a photographing unit which picks-up an image and obtains image data;
- a storage control unit which stores the image data in the form of an image data file in a predetermined manner in a recording medium;
- a reconstruction control unit which reconstructs the image data stored in said recording medium;
- an image data processing unit which combines the image data picked-up by said photographing unit and the image data reconstructed by said reconstruction control unit to produce an image data, and makes said recording medium store the produced image data;
- a display unit which displays the images;
- a display control unit which makes said display unit simultaneously display the image data obtained by said photographing unit for monitoring and the image data reconstructed by said reconstruction control unit, or which makes said display unit display the image data produced by said image data processing unit;
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- an operational instruction inputting unit which provides operational instruction signals to said photographing unit, said storage control unit, said image data processing unit, and said display control unit;
- wherein said photographing unit includes a plurality of CCDs which simultaneously pick-up an image of same or a plurality of objects and obtain a plurality of image data, and said display control unit can make said display unit simultaneously display the plurality of image data obtained by said photographing unit.
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A digital camera comprising:
- photographing means for picking-up an image and obtains image data;
- storage control means for storing the image data in the form of an image data file in a predetermined manner in a recording medium;
- reconstruction control means for reconstructing the image data stored in said recording medium;
- image data processing means for combining the image data picked-up by said photographing means and the image data reconstructed by said reconstruction control means to produce an image data, and makes said recording medium store the produced image data;
- display means for displaying the image data;
- display control means for making said display means simultaneously display the image data obtained by said photographing means for monitoring and the image data reconstructed by said reconstruction control means, or making said display means display the image data produced by said image data processing means;
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- operational instruction inputting means for providing operational instruction signals to said photographing means, said storage control means, said image data processing means, and said display control means.
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A digital camera comprising:
- photographing means for picking-up an image and obtains image data;
- storage control means for storing the image data in the form of an image data file in a predetermined manner in a recording medium;
- reconstruction control means for reconstructing the image data stored in said recording medium;
- image data processing means for combining the image data picked-up by said photographing means and the image data reconstructed by said reconstruction control means to produce an image data, and makes said recording medium store the produced image data;
- display means for displaying the image data;
- display control means for making said display means simultaneously display the image data obtained by said photographing means for monitoring and the image data reconstructed by said reconstruction control means, or making said display means display the image data produced by said image data processing means;
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- operational instruction inputting means for providing operational instruction signals to said photographing means, said storage control means, said image data processing means, and said display control means,
- wherein said photographing means includes a plurality of image pick-up means which simultaneously pick-up an image of same or a plurality of objects and obtain a plurality of image data, and said display control means can make said display means simultaneously display the plurality of image data obtained by said photographing means.
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A method of displaying images obtained by a digital camera, the method comprising the steps of:
- picking-up an image and obtaining image data;
- storing the image data in a recording medium;
- reconstructing the image data stored in said recording medium;
- combining the picked-up image data and the reconstructed the image data to produce a combined image data, and storing the combined image data in said recording medium;
- simultaneously displaying the picked-up image data for monitoring and the reconstructed image data, or displaying the combined image data.
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A method of displaying images obtained by a digital camera, the method comprising the steps of:
- simultaneously picking-up a plurality of images of a same or different objects and obtaining image data;
- storing the image data in a recording medium;
- reconstructing the image data stored in said recording medium;
- combining the picked-up image data and the reconstructed the image data to produce a combined image data, and storing the combined image data in said recording medium;
- simultaneously displaying a plurality of images corresponding to the picked-up image data for monitoring and the reconstructed image data, or displaying the combined image data.
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A mobile terminal comprising:
- a photographing unit which picks-up an image and obtains image data;
- a storage control unit which stores the image data in the form of an image data file in a predetermined manner in a recording medium;
- a reconstruction control unit which reconstructs the image data stored in said recording medium;
- an image data processing unit which combines the image data picked-up by said photographing unit and the image data reconstructed by said reconstruction control unit to produce an image data, and makes said recording medium store the produced image data;
- a display unit which displays the images;
- a display control unit which makes said display unit simultaneously display the image data obtained by said photographing unit for monitoring and the image data reconstructed by said reconstruction control unit, or which makes said display unit display the image data produced by said image data processing unit;
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- an operational instruction inputting unit which provides operational instruction signals to said photographing unit, said storage control unit, said image data processing unit, and said display control unit.
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A mobile terminal comprising:
- a photographing unit which picks-up an image and obtains image data;
- a storage control unit which stores the image data in the form of an image data file in a predetermined manner in a recording medium;
- a reconstruction control unit which reconstructs the image data stored in said recording medium;
- an image data processing unit which combines the image data picked-up by said photographing unit and the image data reconstructed by said reconstruction control unit to produce an image data, and makes said recording medium store the produced image data;
- a display unit which displays the images;
- a display control unit which makes said display unit simultaneously display the image data obtained by said photographing unit for monitoring and the image data reconstructed by said reconstruction control unit, or which makes said display unit display the image data produced by said image data processing unit;
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- an operational instruction inputting unit which provides operational instruction signals to said photographing unit, said storage control unit, said image data processing unit, and said display control unit;
- wherein said photographing unit includes a plurality of CCDs which simultaneously pick-up an image of same or a plurality of objects and obtain a plurality of image data, and said display control unit can make said display unit simultaneously display the plurality of image data obtained by said photographing unit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.