Camera capable of changing the number of image files stored in a current directory according to an image pickup mode
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasaki Okada
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Abstract
In order to overcome such inconveniences that, when photo-taking a combination of serial images as in the case of the continuous shooting mode or the panorama joining image pickup mode, these images are stored extending over different directories, in an electronic still camera capable of storing in one directory a predetermined number of image files each of which is formed from data of an image picked up by an image sensor, a desired image pickup mode is selected from among a plurality of kinds of image pickup modes, and, when the selected image pickup mode is a predetermined image pickup mode, an image file is stored in a current directory even if the number of image files stored in the current directory exceeds the predetermined number.
Claims18
An electronic still camera capable of storing in one directory a predetermined number of image files each of which is formed from data of an image picked up by an image pickup unit in accordance with the operation of image-pickup start direction member, said electronic still camera comprising:
- selection unit which selects a desired image pickup mode from among a plurality of kinds of image pickup modes;
- and
- control unit which, when the image pickup mode selected by said selection unit is a predetermined image pickup mode, allows to store the image files in a current directory even if the number of image files stored in the current directory exceeds the predetermined number, and when the image pickup mode selected by said selection unit is another mode, forbids to store the image files which exceed the predetermined number in the current directory.
A method for controlling an electronic still camera capable of storing in one directory a predetermined number of image files each of which is formed from data of an image picked up by an image pickup unit in accordance with the operation of image-pickup start direction member, said method comprising the steps of:
- selecting a desired image pickup mode from among a plurality of kinds of image pickup modes;
- and
- when the selected image pickup mode is a predetermined image pickup mode, allowing to store the image files in a current directory even if the number of image files stored in the current directory exceeds the predetermined number, and
- when the selected image pickup mode is another mode, forbidding to store the image files which exceed the predetermined number in the current directory.
A storage medium which stores therein a program for executing a process for controlling an electronic still camera capable of storing in one directory a predetermined number of image files each of which is formed from data of an image picked up by an image pickup unit in accordance with the operation of image-pickup start direction member, said process comprising:
- selecting a desired image pickup mode from among a plurality of kinds of image pickup modes;
- and
- when the selected image pickup mode is a predetermined image pickup mode, allowing to store the image files in a current directory even if the number of image files stored in the current directory exceeds the predetermined number, and
- when the selected image pickup mode is another mode, forbidding to store the image files which exceed the predetermined number in the current directory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.