Patent ID: 8164654
Filing Date: 2012-04-24
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image storage apparatus comprising: a shooting unit that shoots a subject and outputs image information; an image processing unit that processes the image information as an image; a system control unit that stores the processed image in a storage medium; a display unit that displays the image information output from said shooting unit; an image quality determination unit that determines the image quality of the image to be stored in the storage medium; a recording mode selection unit having at least a first selectable recording mode, a second selectable recording mode, and a third selectable recording mode, wherein in the first selectable recording mode, said system control unit stores a first image following a digital camera format and having an image quality determined by said image quality determination unit in a first folder in the storage medium, and stores at least one of second images not following the digital camera format and having an image quality determined by said image quality determination unit but different from the image quality or size of the first image, in a second folder in the storage medium, wherein in the second selectable recording mode, said system control unit does not store the at least one of second images but stores only the first image in the storage medium, wherein in the third selectable recording mode, said system control unit does not store the first image but stores only the at least one of second images in the storage medium, and wherein the at least one of second images is the same shot image as the first image but a different version of the first image; and a designation control unit that allows a user in each of the first and third selectable recording modes to designate the number of the second images not following the digital camera format to be stored in the storage medium, and does not allow the user in the second selectable recording mode to designate the number of the first image following the digital camera format to be stored in the storage medium, wherein if the number of the second images designated by the user is two, said system control unit generates two second images from a single image and stores the two second images in the storage medium.