Patent ID: 6335987
Filing Date: 2002-01-01
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
A multiplex storing apparatus for a digital still camera, comprising:a charge couple device (CCD) for converting an image signal of an object input through a lens unit into an electrical signal; a Correlated Double Sampling (CDS)/Automatic Gain Control (AGC) for removing noises from the electrical signal and automatically amplifying and controlling gains associated with the electrical signal for uniformly outputting the electrical signal even when the level of the image signal is varied; an A/D converter for converting an analog image signal inputted from the CDS/AGC into a digital image signal; a memory for temporarily storing an Image Information of one (1) frame of the digital image signal by the A/D converter; a camera position detector for detecting a degree of tilt in the digital still camera and judging the horizontal and vertical picturing state of the digital still camera; a controller for outputting a control signal by which an entire operation of the digital still camera is controlled, wherein pictured images stored in the memory are compressed and stored in one of a horizontally and vertically pictured state without any changes in a size of said picture images in accordance with the horizontal and vertical picturing state of the digital still camera; a compression processor for compressing the pictured Images stored in the memory in accordance with a control of the controller; and a compression storing memory for sequentially storing the Image signals compressed by the compression processor in accordance with a control of the controller.