Patent ID: 7911524

Claim:
A photographing apparatus comprising: an image pickup unit; a lens unit for forming an optical image of a subject in the image pickup unit, the image pickup unit for photoelectrically converting the optical image formed through the lens unit to an electrical image signal; a signal processing unit for processing the photoelectrically converted image signal to a luminance signal and a color signal; a compression unit for compressing the processed image signal; and a storage unit for storing the compressed image signal; wherein the image pickup unit comprises first and second vertical transmission registers for accumulating an image of an even field and an image of an odd field, respectively, the first and second vertical transmission registers being parallel to one another; wherein image signals of the odd field are moved to the first vertical transmission register and then to the second vertical transmission register; and wherein the image pickup unit further comprises a horizontal transmission register for receiving the image signals of the even field and the odd field directly from the first and second vertical transmission registers.