Patent ID: 8497910
Filing Date: 2013-07-30
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital camera having communication function comprising: an image taking portion arranged to capture an image of a picture; a wireless communicator arranged to send digital image data derived from the image taking portion to outside of the digital camera and to receive digital image data from outside of the digital camera; a display arranged to display digital image data; an image storage portion arranged to store digital image data derived from the image taking portion and digital image data received through the wireless communicator, wherein the digital image data stored in the image storage includes full size image data depending on the image taking portion, whose size is greatest among a plurality of sizes of images for the picture, display image data whose size is in a satisfactory quality for viewing the picture on full display, and is smaller than the full size image data among the plurality of sizes of images for the same picture, and thumbnail data whose size is in an insufficient quality, which is lower than the satisfactory quality, for viewing on the full display and utilized to designate the picture to be viewed on the full display in place of the thumbnail display; and a storage controller arranged so that at least part of the full size image data, which has been already sent to the outside of the digital camera as a backup and remains in the image storage portion of the digital camera, is deleted from the image storage portion before the display image data is deleted if new digital image data is to be stored in the image storage portion for keeping the display image data for the satisfactory viewing on the full display without the necessity of retrieving the full size image data for the same picture from the outside even if the full size image data has been deleted from the image storage portion.