CAMERA AND METHOD FOR RECORDING IMAGE FILES

• US 20130258128A1
• Filed: 05/29/2013
• Published: 10/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: OM Digital Solutions Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: Nonaka, Osamu, Tani, Akira, Hara, Satoshi
• Granted Patent: US 9,143,683 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/220.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3251 where the modified version of the image is relating to a person or face
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/611 where the recognised objects include parts of the human body
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/667 Camera operation mode switching, e.g. between still and video, sport and normal or high- and low-resolution modes

Abstract

A camera according to the present invention comprises: an imaging section converting an object image into image data; a storage section storing still image data of a still image obtained by the imaging section, thumbnail image data of the still image, and moving image data of a moving image which has been photographed at timing at least either before or after photographing of the still image; a display section performing display of one or more thumbnail views according to the thumbnail image data; and a display control section, when one of the thumbnail views is designated in the thumbnail view display, performing display of the still image on the display section according to the still image data corresponding to the designated thumbnail view after having performed display of the moving image according to the moving image data corresponding to the designated thumbnail view stored in the storage section.

Claims

1. A camera, comprising:

an imaging section converting an object image into image data and outputting the image data; and

a storage section storing a still image file for storing still image data obtained by the imaging section and a moving image file for storing image data of a moving image which has been photographed before and/or after photographing of a still image, wherein

the still image file has information for effectively reproducing the moving image stored in the moving image file.

2. The camera according to claim 1, wherein

the moving image file includes information related to time when the moving image is photographed.

3. The camera according to claim 1, wherein

the information for effectively reproducing the moving image is employed time information for a moving image which is employed for reproduction in the moving image stored in the moving image file.

4. The camera according to claim 1, wherein

the moving image to be reproduced is selected as an appropriate portion by eliminating at least one of object movement, image disturbance, and expression change, as an inappropriate portion.

5. A camera, comprising:

an imaging section converting an object image into image data and outputting the image data; and

a storage section storing a still image file for storing still image data obtained by the imaging section and a moving image file for storing image data of a moving image which has been photographed before and/or after photographing of a still image, wherein

the moving image file has information for effectively reproducing the moving image stored in the moving image file.

6. The camera according to claim 5, wherein

the moving image to be effectively reproduced is a moving image to be displayed in the displaying of the still image.

7. A method for recording image files, comprising the steps of:

converting an object image into image data and outputting the image data by an imaging section; and

storing still image data obtained by the imaging section in a still image file of a storage section, and storing image data of an moving image, which has been photographed before and/or after photographing of a still image, in a moving image file of the storage section, wherein

the still image file has information for effectively reproducing the moving image stored in the moving image file.