Patent ID: 7046281
Filing Date: 2006-05-16
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A camera apparatus, comprising: an optical system; a photographing element for converting a light signal of an object to be photographed from the optical system to an electric signal; an A/D conversion unit for converting the electric signal from the photographing element to digital image data; a control means for compressing the image data from the A/D conversion and also converting the compressed data to image data of a prescribed form; and an optical disc for storing the image data of the prescribed form, wherein said optical disc is a direct read after write type optical disk or a rewritable type optical disk, wherein said optical disc stores the image data of the prescribed form which corresponds to each photographed object, and wherein thumbnail image data corresponding to the image data compressed and converted by the control means is produced and temporarily stored in a memory; said thumbnail image data being transferred from said memory and recorded onto said optical disc only when an eject command in input.