Image recording and reproducing apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTetsuji Saito
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Abstract
An image recording and reproducing apparatus that records and reproduces image data shot at a frame rate higher than a normal reproduction rate employed during reproduction of a moving image can generate a still image by attaching still image recording information to at least one frame image included in the recorded image data and combining a plurality of frame images of the recorded image data in accordance with the still image recording information.
Claims10
An image recording and reproducing apparatus that records and reproduces image data shot at a frame rate higher than a normal reproduction rate employed during reproduction of a moving image, the apparatus comprising:
- a moving image storage period setting unit configured to set a moving image storage period in order to determine the number of frame images to be combined when the image data is reproduced as a moving image;
- a still image storage period setting unit configured to set a still image storage period in order to set the number of frame images to be combined when the image data is reproduced as a still image;
- a parameter attaching unit configured to attach a parameter indicating the moving image storage period and a parameter indicating the still image storage period to each frame image of the image data;
- an image recording unit configured to record the image data attached with the parameters by the parameter attaching unit;
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- a still image recording instructing unit configured to give an instruction to start recording a still image,
- wherein the parameter attaching unit attaches information indicating the start of recording of the still image to a frame image of the image data in response to the still image recording start instruction received during a recording operation performed by the image recording unit.
An image recording and reproducing apparatus that records and reproduces moving image data shot at a frame rate higher than a normal reproduction rate employed during reproduction of a moving image, the apparatus comprising:
- a generating unit configured to combine a plurality of frame images included in the moving image data recorded on a recording medium to generate a frame image to be displayed;
- a still image capturing condition setting unit configured to set a still image capturing condition for determining the number of frame images to be combined when the moving image data is reproduced as a still image;
- a still image capturing instructing unit configured to give an instruction to start capturing a still image;
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- a controlling unit configured to perform, in response to the still image capturing start instruction received during a reproduction operation performed using the frame image generated by the generating unit, a control operation to select a plurality of frame images and record a still image resulting from combination of the plurality of selected frame images, the number of frame images to be combined being determined in accordance with the still image capturing condition set by the still image capturing condition setting unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.