Electronic camera
First Claim
1. An electronic camera comprising:
- image pick-up means for continuously imaging an object;
temporary memory means for temporarily storing plural frames of image data continuously imaged by said image pick-up means;
image compressing means for compressing the plural frames of image data stored in said temporary memory means using a uniform compression factor value and generating plural frames of encoded image data;
shooting evaluation means for evaluating a good or bad shooting state of the image data imaged by said image pick-up means based on comparison of a data amount of the plural frames of encoded image data compressed by said image compressing means;
still image selection means for selecting the image data with a highest evaluation of said shooting evaluation means among the image data stored in said temporary memory means; and
image saving means for saving the encoded image data selected by said still image selection means.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an electronic camera which images an object image and records image data. Particularly, the present invention relates to technology to record image data in a good shooting state, such as with little blurring due to hand shaking. The invention has an image pick-up means 1 which continuously images an object, a temporary memory means 2 which temporarily stores a plurality of frames of image data which are continuously imaged by the image pick-up means 1, a shooting evaluation means 3 which evaluates a good or bad shooting state of the image data imaged by the image pick-up means 1, a still image selection means 4 which selects the image data with the highest evaluation of the shooting evaluation means 3 among the image data which are stored in the temporary memory means 2, and an image saving means 5 which saves the image data which is selected by the still image selection means 4.
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10 Claims
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1. An electronic camera comprising:
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image pick-up means for continuously imaging an object;
temporary memory means for temporarily storing plural frames of image data continuously imaged by said image pick-up means;
image compressing means for compressing the plural frames of image data stored in said temporary memory means using a uniform compression factor value and generating plural frames of encoded image data;
shooting evaluation means for evaluating a good or bad shooting state of the image data imaged by said image pick-up means based on comparison of a data amount of the plural frames of encoded image data compressed by said image compressing means;
still image selection means for selecting the image data with a highest evaluation of said shooting evaluation means among the image data stored in said temporary memory means; and
image saving means for saving the encoded image data selected by said still image selection means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. An electronic camera comprising a controller that:
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evaluates a good or bad shooting state of continuously imaged image data of an object, the continuously imaged image data as plural frames of image data stored in a temporary memory and the evaluation based on comparison of an encoded data amount of plural frames of encoded image data compressed from the plural frames of image data from the continuously imaged image data;
selects an image data with a highest evaluation among the continuously imaged image data; and
saves the selected image data.
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