Patent ID: 6961087
Filing Date: 2005-11-01
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An electronic apparatus comprising: an image pickup device that photographs an object and outputting an image signal; a memory control device that allows said image signal to be stored into an image memory device; a comparing device that compares remaining capacity of said image memory device with a size of another image signal to be photographed in a photographing mode of said image pickup device, wherein the photographing mode of said image pickup device specifies the size of the another image signal; a selecting device that automatically selects one of image signals stored in said image memory device when said comparing device decides that the photographing of the another image signal is impossible in the photographing mode of said image pickup device because a required amount of said image memory device for the photographing in said photographing mode is not available; and a communicating device that automatically transmits the image signal stored in said image memory device when a predetermined condition is satisfied so as to enable a new image signal to be stored into said image memory device.