PORTABLE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20080284857A1
• Filed: 07/11/2008
• Published: 11/20/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/1997
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: YOSHIDA, Shigeo
• Granted Patent: US 8,284,304 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/207.99
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/50 Constructional details
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• 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 9/7921 for more than one processing mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8047 using transform coding

Abstract

Even when a remaining amount of an image memory built in a digital camera is decreased, the photographing can be further continued while reserving a photographed image. An image which is obtained from an image input unit including image pickup means is accumulated into an image memory. When a remaining amount calculating unit detects that the remaining amount of the image memory is small, an image record discriminating unit compares it with an image size in a photograph mode at that time which is obtained from an image size table, thereby discriminating whether the continuation of the photographing can be performed or not. When the photographing is impossible, an image selecting unit selects an old image, an image in which the number of colors is small, or the like on the basis of management data regarding the photographed images in a memory managing table. The selected image is transmitted by a PHS communication by a data transmitting apparatus. After it was transmitted, the image is erased from the image memory.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus including a first block and a second block rotatably connected to said first block, comprising:

a microphone included in said first block;

a speaker included in said second block;

an image pickup unit included in said second block; and

a first display unit included in said second block.

2. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said speaker and said first display unit are arranged on a surface of said second block, opposite to a surface thereof on which said image pickup unit is arranged.

3. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said first display unit has a touch panel function.

4. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a second display unit included in said first block, wherein said second display unit is arranged on a surface of said first block, opposite to a surface thereof on which said microphone is arranged.

5. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a buttery included in said second block, wherein said battery is arranged on the surface of said second block, on which said image pickup unit is arranged.

6. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an infrared interface included in said second block, wherein said infrared interface is arranged on the surface of said second block, on which said image pickup unit is arranged.