Patent ID: 7619661
Filing Date: 2009-11-17
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A camera system including an optical unit, and a camera body to which the optical unit is detachably attached, the optical unit, comprising: an optical system which forms subject light into an image; a shooting section which receives the subject light formed into the image through the optical system, takes the image in a shooting mode selected from among a plurality of types of shooting modes, and generates an analog image signal indicating the subject light; and a data converter section which converts the image signal into digital image data having a data format corresponding to the shooting mode, and the camera body, comprising: a connect section to which the optical unit is detachably attached; an image processing section which obtains the image data from the optical unit and performs image processing of the image data according to the data format of the image data; and a mode selector section which instructs the shooting section to make selection among the shooting modes, and which allows the shooting section to perform shooting in the selected shooting mode, wherein the image processing section performs the image processing on each image data having each of at least one of data formats, and at least one of the optical unit and the camera body includes a format limitation section which finds a common data format by comparing between data formats convertible by the data converter section and data formats processable by the image processing section, and which limits the data formats used by the data converter section to the common data format.