Digital camera for capturing both still images and moving pictures
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Apr 13, 2010
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Sep 14, 2006
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Jul 7, 2005
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Mar 8, 2005
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A digital camera enabling a photographer to select representative frames reflecting his intentions, which captures both moving pictures and still images, and encodes moving picture data by frame correlation compression. The camera includes an image processing section that increases the number of I pictures in compressed moving picture data captured before, or before and after, a still image recording (SIR) instruction is received during moving picture acquisition. By this arrangement, continuous image data can be buffered for a fixed time period, and when a SIR instruction is given, this image data can be compressed and recorded as I pictures with the data being traced back for a fixed time period. As a result, image data further in the past by a fixed time period than the time at which the SIR instruction is given can be acquired as I pictures, enabling the user to select intended representative frames.
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