Patent ID: 6912002
Filing Date: 2005-06-28
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital still camera comprising: an imaging device for imaging a subject and outputting image data representing an image of the subject; an image pickup theme setting device for setting an image pickup theme; a frame number storage device for storing, for the image pickup theme set by said image pickup theme setting device, a last frame number of a plurality of frame numbers assigned at the time of imaging; a frame number increment device for incrementing, every time the subject is imaged by said imaging device, the last frame number for the image pickup theme set by said image pickup theme setting device out of the frame numbers stored in said frame number storage device; a storage control device for controlling said frame number storage device such that the last frame number incremented by said frame number increment device is stored for the corresponding image pickup theme; and an image data recording control device for recording on a first recording medium data representing the last frame number incremented by said frame number increment device and the image data outputted from said imaging device by the imaging under the image pickup theme set by said image pickup theme setting device with the data and the image data related to each other, wherein said frame number storage device retains said last frame number and said frame number increment device incrementally increases said assigned frame number starting from said last frame number if a new recording medium replaces said first recording medium.