Image pickup apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKan Takaiwa, Yuji Yamamoto, Emi Hitosuga
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Abstract
An image pickup apparatus enters an enlargement display mode (in which enlargement display processing of enlarging and displaying part of reduced image data for normal display is performed) from any other image display mode. The image pickup apparatus also performs enlargement display processing of enlarging and displaying part of reduced image data for normal display at a high speed. Furthermore, the image pickup apparatus starts enlargement display processing of enlarging and displaying part of reduced image data for normal display from the portion stored in the previous enlargement display processing.
Claims8
An image pickup apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of image display modes;
- and
- control means for effecting control so that switchover to an enlargement display mode in which enlargement display processing of enlarging and displaying part of reduced image data is performed, from any other mode of the plurality of image display modes can be performed.
An image pickup apparatus comprising:
- image pickup means for generating image data;
- image processing means for generating from the image data first reduced image data, second reduced image data larger in size than the first reduced image data, and third reduced image data larger in size than the second reduced image data;
- image file generation means for generating an image file including the image data, the first reduced image data, the second reduced image data, and the third reduced image data, and writing the generated image file into a storage medium;
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- display means for displaying the second reduced image data,
- wherein the third reduced image data is used in the enlargement display processing of enlarging and displaying part of the second reduced image data.
An image pickup apparatus comprising:
- control means for controlling the enlargement display processing of displaying an enlarged image of part of reduced image data,
- wherein said control means effects control so that the enlargement display processing can be started from a portion set in the previous enlargement display processing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.