Patent ID: 7369611
Filing Date: 2008-05-06
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital video camera apparatus comprising: an image pickup unit, adapted to generate an image signal; a camera signal process unit, adapted to process the image signal to be corrected; a display unit, adapted to input the image signal from said camera signal process unit, and to monitor the image during preparation for photographing of the image to be recorded; a zoom unit having a zoom operation member, adapted to direct an optical lens for zooming; a speed discriminating unit, adapted to discriminate a plurality of zoom speeds of said zoom unit; and an encoding unit, adapted to encode the image signal from said camera signal process unit in a plurality of coding modes, wherein said encoding unit (1) is set in a coding mode which uses an I-picture, a P-Picture, and a B-Picture, in a case in which a discrimination result of said speed discriminating unit indicates one of a first zoom speed and no zoom operation, (2) is set in a coding mode which uses only the I-picture and the P-picture, in a case in which the discrimination result indicates a second zoom speed, and (3) is set in a coding mode which uses only the I-picture, in a case in which the discrimination result indicates a third zoom speed.