Image processing apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKoji Takahashi, Motokazu Kashida, Kenji Kawai
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Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes an image pickup circuit having a plurality of photographic modes, such as television standards, a compression processing circuit for performing compression processing of an image pickup signal outputted from the image pickup circuit, the compression circuit having a plurality of compression modes, and a selecting circuit for selecting one of the compression modes of the compression processing circuit in accordance with a selected one of the photographic modes of the image pickup circuit.
Claims8
An image processing apparatus comprising:
- image pickup means having a plurality of photographic modes;
- compression processing means for performing compression processing of an image pickup signal outputted from said image pickup means, said compression means having a plurality of compression modes;
- designating means for designating said photographic modes;
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- control means for controlling said image pickup means and said compression processing means in an associated manner according to the designated photographic mode.
A photographing apparatus, comprising:
- (a) image pickup means for obtaining image signals;
- (b) compression means for compressing said image signals;
- (c) designating means for designating an operation mode;
- (d) control means for controlling said image pickup means and said compression means in an associated manner according to the designated operation mode;
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- (e) addition means for adding additional data indicating the designated operation mode to the compressed image signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.