Patent ID: 7855733
Filing Date: 2010-12-21
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An electronic camera that generates a still image by photographing a subject, generates image information corresponding to the still image having a data volume smaller than a data volume of the still image and records the still image and the image information into a recording medium, comprising: a frame feed reproduction device that sequentially switches a display of a still image recorded in the recording medium in advance; a high-speed frame feed reproduction device that sequentially displays a set of image information corresponding to a still image recorded in the recording medium in advance; and a switching device that selects either said frame feed reproduction device or said high-speed frame feed reproduction device to switch between said frame feed reproduction device and said high-speed frame feed reproduction device, wherein said frame feed reproduction device displays a still image each time an individual external frame feed operation is received when the external frame feed operation are received at a specific operating unit over intervals exceeding a specific length of time; said switching device switches to said high-speed frame feed reproduction device if the external frame feed operation is continuously received or the external frame feed operations are repeatedly received over intervals shorter than the specific length of time at said operating unit while said frame feed reproduction device is selected; and when said switching device has performed a first switching operation to switch to said high-speed frame feed reproduction device from said frame feed reproduction device, said high-speed frame feed reproduction device sequentially displays a set of image information corresponding to a still image recorded in the recording medium in advance while continuing to display at least a part of a still image displayed by said frame feed reproduction device immediately before the first switching operation.