Patent ID: 6741280
Filing Date: 2004-05-25
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A digital camera including an image pickup device for picking up an image, a recording device for recording the picked up image, a reproducing device for reproducing the recorded image, a storing device for temporarily storing an image to be picked up and the reproduced image, and an image display device for displaying an image read from said storing device, and having a reproduction mode for displaying a reproduced image and a reproduction zoom mode for displaying in enlargement a desired area of the reproduced image, said digital camera comprising:a designating device for designating, in said reproduction zoom mode, a desired zoom area of the reproduced image reproduced by said reproducing device, written into said storing device and displayed on said image display device; a first reading device for reading, from said storing device, only an image of the zoom area, designated by said designating device, of the image written into said storing device; a first image generating device for generating an enlarged image of one image plane by enlarging the image of the zoom area read by said first reading device and providing the enlarged image to said image display device; a writing device for writing, in response to pressing of a control button, only the image of the zoom area read by said first reading device into said recording device; a second reading device for reading, in said reproduction mode, the image of the zoom area reproduced by said reproducing device and written into said storing device; and a second image generating device for generating an enlarged image of one image plane by enlarging the image of the zoom area read by said second reading device and providing the enlarged image to said image display device, wherein the first reading device reads only the image of the zoom area which is a part of the reproduced image reproduced by the reproducing device.