Patent ID: 7489348
Filing Date: 2009-02-10
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital camera capable of instructing to shoot a still image during shooting of a moving image, the digital camera characterized in that it comprises: a storage unit which includes a plurality of memory areas to sequentially store on a frame by frame basis image data input during shooting of the moving image; a display control unit which generates an image signal by which the input image data stored in the storage unit are displayed on a display; and a control unit which controls a series of processings, wherein said control unit controls the input and output of the storage unit such that the storage unit stores the image data input during shooting of the moving image, sequentially filling the plurality of the memory areas in a cyclic manner, and, in response to a still image recording instruction signal received during shooting of the moving image, the control unit skips a specific memory area of the storage unit and assigns still image data of a frame to the specific memory area of the storage unit and temporarily stores the still image data in the specific memory area, and wherein said control unit instructs the display control unit to display the stored still image data.