Patent ID: 7388992
Filing Date: 2008-06-17
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital photographic device comprising: an image data creator that creates a first type of image data for test shooting and creates a second type of image data for real shooting; a compressor that compresses the image data in a predetermined compression format; and a processor that processes the data; wherein the compressor has one or plural compression parameters relating to a compression rate; the image data creator newly supplies the first type of image data to the compressor one file after another by newly performing the test shooting one after another; the compressor compresses at least two files among the continuously supplied first type of image data using values of the compression parameters which are different from each other; the processor decides the value of the compression parameter to be used for the second type of image data according to a predetermined standard, based on two and more files of first type image data that are compressed using values of the compression parameters which are different from each other; and further, the processor sets the value of the compression parameter of the compressor at the decided value.