US 2003/0193602 A1 · IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DISPLAYING COMPRESSING AND ENCODING IMAGE DATA

Abstract

In order to obtain a digital still camera capable of storing only a desired image from photography images, a photography image data generation unit processes an image signal from a CCD to generate high-, middle-, and low-resolution image data. While a photography timing designation button is not depressed, the middle-resolution data is monitored in D1 of a display through a buffer memory. When the photography timing designation button is depressed, high- and low-resolution data of three consecutive frames are generated and stored in M2 to M7 of the buffer memory, and low-resolution data are displayed in D2 to D4 of the display. The high-resolution data are compressed and encoded, and then stored in C1 to C3 of a main memory. When the user selects, e.g., D3 of the displayed D2 to D4 with a touch panel, the corresponding data of C2 is extracted from C1 to C3 and stored in F1 of a nonvolatile memory.

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Dependent claims

An image pickup apparatus comprising:

image pickup means for picking up an image of an object to output an image signal;
image processing means for processing the image signal to generate high-resolution image data and low-resolution image data;
designation means for outputting designation so as to cause said image processing means to process the image signals of a plurality of frames;
first storage means for storing the high- and low-resolution image data of the plurality of frames which are obtained by processing the image signals in accordance with the designation;
display means for displaying an image;
display control means for displaying the low-resolution image data of the plurality of frames stored in said first storage means on said display means;
compression encoding means for compressing and encoding, at a predetermined compression ratio, the high-resolution image data of the plurality of frames stored in said first storage means;
second storage means for storing the compressed and encoded image data of the plurality of frames;
and
first selection means for selecting and outputting image data of a desired frame from the image data of the plurality of frames stored in said second storage means, on the basis of display of said display means.

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A storage medium storing a control program for an image pickup apparatus in a state readable from a computer, the control program comprising:

a step of picking up an image of an object to output an image signal;
a step of processing the image signal to generate high-resolution image data and low-resolution image data;
a step of outputting designation so as to process the image signals of a plurality of frames in the image processing step;
a first storage step of storing the high- and low-resolution image data of the plurality of frames which are obtained by processing the image signals in accordance with the designation;
a step of displaying an image;
a step of displaying, in the display step, the low-resolution image data of the plurality of frames stored in the first storage step;
a step of compressing and encoding, at a predetermined compression ratio, the high-resolution image data of the plurality of frames stored in the first storage step;
a second storage step of storing the compressed and encoded image data of the plurality of frames;
and
a first selection step of selecting and outputting image data of a desired frame from the image data of the plurality of frames stored in the second storage step, on the basis of display in the display step.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Image pickup apparatus method and storage medium for displaying compressing and encoding image data

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Image pickup apparatus method and storage medium for displaying compressing and encoding image data

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