Patent ID: 8208041
Filing Date: 2012-06-26
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image pickup apparatus comprising: an image pickup unit configured to pick up an image of a subject; an internal recording medium; a mounting unit in which a removable external recording medium can be mounted; a compression processing unit configured to compress the image picked up by the image pickup unit to generate a compressed image; a recording processing unit configured to record the image picked up by the image pickup unit as a picked-up image in the removable external recording medium, and record the compressed image corresponding to the picked-up image recorded in the removable external recording medium in the internal recording medium; an editing processing unit configured to edit the picked-up image recorded in the removable external recording medium and the compressed image recorded in the internal recording medium; and a control unit configured to refer to the compressed image recorded in the internal recording medium to receive a setting for editing the picked-up image recorded in the removable external recording medium not mounted in the mounting unit, and to edit the picked-up image recorded in the removable external recording medium based on the received setting for edition after the removable external recording medium is mounted in the mounting unit.