Digital camera

• US 20010004268A1
• Filed: 12/13/2000
• Published: 06/21/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Minolta Corporation Limited (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Minolta Corporation Limited (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Kubo, Hiroaki, Morimoto, Yasuhiro
• Application Number:
  US09/735,751
• Publication Number:
  US 20010004268A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/333.02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00453 arranged in a two dimensional array
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00458 Sequential viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. browsing or scrolling
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2112 using still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2158 using a detachable storage unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32128 attached to the image data, e.g. file header, transmitted message header, information on the same page or in the same computer file as the image for information embedded in the image H04N1/32144
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32133 on the same paper sheet, e.g. a facsimile page header
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/216 Arrangements for recording on different types of storage medium, e.g. IC card or magnetic tape; Recording on a plurality of storage media
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3205 of identification information, e.g. name or ID code H04N2201/3209 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3226 of identification information or the like, e.g. ID code, index, title, part of an image, reduced-size image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3254 Orientation, e.g. landscape or portrait; Location or order of the image data, e.g. in memory
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3273 Display
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3277 The additional information being stored in the same storage device as the image data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/907 using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/9264 using transform coding

Abstract

A digital camera in which two recording media such as memory cards may be mounted, wherein when an image 211 is reproduced in the monitor 21 on the rear side of the camera, the card name 212 for the memory card in which the data for the image 211 is recorded, as well as the image number 213, are also displayed. Further, by deeming the first image data item in the other memory card as the image data item following the last image data item in one memory card, all image data items recorded in both memory cards are handled as if they were recorded in a single large-capacity memory card. Consequently, the user may easily determine the memory card from which the displayed image was read, and at the same time, erroneous operation may be prevented, and accurate handling of the image data may be realized.

Claims

1. A digital camera comprising:

a reader that can read image data from two or more recording media;

a display which performs display of the image; and

a display controller which causes said display to display the information that specifies the recording medium from which the image data was read as well as the image based on the image data.

2. A digital camera according to

claim 1

, wherein the information which specifies the recording medium comprises a name that is assigned to the recording medium.

3. A digital camera according to

claim 1

, further comprising two or more card slots, and the recording media are memory cards mounted in these card slots.

4. A digital camera according to

claim 3

, wherein the information which specifies the recording medium is information that indicates the card slot in which the memory card is mounted.

5. A digital camera comprising:

a reader which reads image data from a first recording medium and a second recording medium;

a display which performs display of the image; and

a display controller which causes said display to display essentially simultaneously a first image based on the image data read from the first recording medium and a second image based on the image data read from the second recording medium.

6. A digital camera according to

claim 5

, wherein said display controller causes said display to display the information that specifies the first recording medium in a manner such that it is associated with the first image, and causes said display to display the information that specifies the second recording medium in a manner such that it is associated with the second image.

7. A digital camera comprising:

a reader which can read image data from any of two or more recording media;

a display which performs display of the image; and

a display controller that, by handling a plurality of items of image data recorded in the two or more recording media in sequence based on a prescribed rule, causes said display to sequentially display the plurality of images in accordance with the sequence.

8. A digital camera according to

claim 7

, wherein the sequence based on the prescribed rule is the ascending or descending order of the recording times for the plurality of items of image data.

9. A digital camera according to

claim 7

, wherein the sequence based on the prescribed rule is the sequence in accordance with the predetermined order of the two or more recording media.

10. A digital camera according to

claim 7

, wherein said display controller causes said display to display the information that specifies the recording medium from which the image data was read together with the image displayed based on image data.

11. An image display method in a digital camera comprising:

reading image data from one of two or more recording media; and

displaying an image based on the image data and the information that specifies the recording medium from which the image data was read.

12. An image display method in a digital camera comprising:

reading image data from a first recording medium and a second recording medium; and

displaying the first image based on the image data read from the first recording medium and the second image based on the image data read from the second recording medium, essentially simultaneously.

13. An image display method in a digital camera comprising:

reading one item of image data from a plurality of items of image data stored in two or more recording media;

displaying an image based on the one item of image data; and

specifying the next item of image data following the displayed item of image data in accordance with the sequence of the plurality of items of image data based on a prescribed rule when the image following the displayed image is designated, whereas specifying the image data item prior to the displayed item of image data in accordance with said sequence when the image prior to the displayed image is designated.