Imaging apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNobutoshi Takayama
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Abstract
An imaging apparatus for recording image data picked up by an image pickup unit until a recording medium is presented. In response to an instruction from an instruction operation unit capable of arbitrary instruction, a first image data picked up by the image pickup unit is allocated to the same group as a second image data photographed immediately before the first image data so as to allocate the first image data to the same group as the image data picked up immediately before the first image data. In addition, management information containing group information that shows image data within the group is generated.
Claims22
An imaging apparatus comprising:
- image pickup means;
- recording means for recording image data obtained by the image pickup means onto a recording medium;
- operation instructing means capable of arbitrary operations;
- and
- controlling means for allocating a first image data picked up by said image pickup means, and a second image data picked up by the image pickup means immediately before the first image data, to a same group in accordance with an instruction from the operation instructing means, and for generating group information indicating the image data within the group.
An imaging apparatus comprising:
- image pickup means;
- recording means for recording image data obtained by said image pickup means onto a recording medium;
- instructing means for arbitrarily instructing that image data photographed by said image pickup means be grouped;
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- controlling means for allocating image data recorded by the recording means during a period from an instruction from the instructing means to the next instruction, to a same group, and for generating management information that shows the image data of the group.
A signal processing method that is a method of recording image data obtained by an image pickup means onto a recording medium, comprising:
- allocating a first image data picked up by said image pickup means and a second image data picked up by said image pickup means immediately before the first image data to a same group, so as to allocate the first image data to the same group as the image data picked up immediately before the first image data, in response to an arbitrary instruction from an instructing operating means capable of operation, and generating management information containing group information indicating the image data within the group.
A signal processing method that is a method of recording image data obtained by an image pickup means onto a recording medium, comprising:
- allocating image data recorded by the recording means to a same group during a period from an instruction by an instructing means to arbitrarily instructing that the image data picked up by said image pickup means be grouped, until the next instruction, and generating management information containing group information that shows the image data of the group.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.