Patent ID: 7633534
Filing Date: 2009-12-15
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image capturing apparatus, comprising: an image capturing unit including: wherein said first memory requires less power consumption in reading an image of the same capacity out thereof than that in reading out of said second memory, wherein said second memory is a hard disk drive and said first memory is a semiconductor memory, a battery that feeds operating power to said image capturing section, said second memory, said first memory, said image compressing section, and said first display section, wherein said image capturing unit further includes a storage processing section which transfers a plurality of images captured by said image capturing section altogether to said second memory when an empty capacity of said first memory falls below a reference value set in advance, wherein said storage processing section transfers the images captured by said image capturing section from said first memory to said second memory and stores only the compressed images in said first memory when power is supplied from the outside.