Patent ID: 7212236
Filing Date: 2007-05-01
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital camera including an optical zoom function and an electronic zoom function, the two functions providing zooming in accordance with magnifications that are set for the two functions, and by combining the two functions, the digital camera being capable of providing image data which represents a subject image in accordance with a specified photographic magnification, and the digital camera comprising: a zoom operation section for operating to specify the photographic magnification of the subject image; and a magnification setting section which, in accordance with the specified photographic magnification, selects a first magnification from a plurality of fixed magnification values which have been set in advance and sets the first magnification at the optical zoom function, and sets a second magnification at the electronic zoom function such that the optical zoom function and the electronic zoom function, when combined, provide an image of the specified photographic magnification, wherein a settable range of magnifications that can be provided by the optical zoom function is constituted by a plurality of sub-regions which form portions of the range and, for each of the sub-regions, a single magnification value, which is included in the sub-region, is set in advance as one of the fixed magnification values.