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US 7,412,155 B2Granted
Imaging apparatus having a continuous shooting function
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYasushi Kasai
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Abstract
An imaging apparatus includes an image capturing unit for obtaining still-image data, a recording unit for recording, in a recording medium, the still-image data obtained by the image-capturing unit, and a play-list generating unit which, in a continuous shooting mode for obtaining a series of still images and recording a series of still-image-data items representing the still images recorded in the recording medium, generates a play list specifying a process for playing back the series of still-image-data items.
Claims13
An imaging apparatus comprising:
- image-capturing means;
- recording means for recording, in a recording medium, still-image data obtained by the image-capturing means;
- instructing means for instructing an image-capturing;
- mode-switching means for switching a mode of the apparatus between a plurality of modes including a single shooting mode in which the image-capturing means performs an image-capturing of a still image of one picture in accordance with an instruction by the instructing means and the recording means records, in a recording medium, a still-image-data item representing the still image of one picture and a continuous shooting mode in which the image-capturing means performs an image-capturing of a series of still images of plural pictures in accordance with an instruction by the instructing means and the recording means records, in the recording medium, a series of still-image-data items representing the series of the still images of plural pictures;
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- play-list generating means which, generates a play list for playing back, from among a plurality of still-image-data items recorded in the recording medium, the series of still-image-data items representing the series of the still images of plural pictures recorded in the continuous shooting mode,
- wherein the play-list generating means generates, in the continuous shooting mode, a new play list for each instruction by the instructing means,
- wherein the recording means stores the still-image-data item and the play list in a plurality of directories and records the still-image-data item and the play list each stored in the plurality of directories in the recording medium, and
- wherein the recording means stores the still-image-data item corresponding to the still image captured in the single shooting mode by the image-capturing means and the series of still-image-data items representing the series of the still images of plural pictures captured in the continuous shooting mode by the image-capturing means in a same directory and stores the plurality of play list generated for each of the instructions by the instructing means in another directory.
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An imaging method comprising:
- receiving an instruction for capturing images by an imaging apparatus in a respective mode selected from a plurality of modes including a single shooting mode in which the imaging apparatus performs image-capturing of a still image of one picture and a continuous shooting mode in which the imaging apparatus performs image-capturing of a series of still images of plural pictures:
- switching an image capturing mode, in the imaging apparatus, in accordance with the received instruction for capturing images:
- capturing one or more images, by the imaging apparatus, in accordance with the image capturing mode;
- recording the images captured in a recording medium, a still-image-data item representing the still image of one picture and a series of still-image-data items representing the series of the still images of plural pictures captured in the continuous shooting mode;
- and
- generating a play list for playing back, from among a plurality of still-image-data items recorded in the recording medium, the series of still-image-data items representing the series of the images of plural pictures recorded in the continuous shooting mode,
- wherein, in the continuous shooting mode, a new play list is generated for each received instruction:
- wherein the still-image-data item and the play list are recorded in a plurality of directories in the recording medium, and
- wherein the still-image-data item corresponding to the still image captured in the single shooting mode by the imaging apparatus is recorded on the recording medium the series of still-image-data items representing the series of the still images of plural pictures captured by the imaging apparatus in the continuous mode are stored in a same directory and the plurality of play lists generated for each instruction are stored in another directory.
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