Patent ID: 9197811
Filing Date: 2015-11-24
Classification: G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A recording operation control device for a camera which can perform time-lapse photography at a predetermined photographing time interval, said recording operation control device comprising: an internal memory housed in the camera body; an external memory detachably attached to the camera body; an external memory controller that opens or closes a file defined in said external memory when recording image data in said external memory; a time measurer that measures a processing time from the start of a photographing operation for a single image to the completion of an image-processing operation on image data obtained by said photographing operation; and an image data writer that writes image data to said internal memory and said external memory; said external memory controller maintaining the open state of said file, and said image data writer recording image data in said external memory without storing the image data in said internal memory, when said predetermined photographing time interval is shorter than said processing time.