Patent ID: 7443424

Claim:
A digital camera comprising an image pickup device for shooting a subject image, motion picture compression means for compressing on a per frame basis the motion picture data of a subject image shot with said image pickup device and recording the compressed data onto a recording medium as compressed motion picture data, marking instruction means for instructing addition of marking data to an arbitrary frame in recording said motion picture data onto said recording medium, marking means for adding marking data to a frame specified by said marking instruction means, search means for reading to compressed motion picture data from said recording medium and for detecting a frame where said marking data is added from the compressed motion picture data read from the recording medium; motion picture decompression means for decompressing the frame and a predetermined number of frames in the neighborhood of the frame on a per frame basis each time the frame where said marking data is added is detected by the search means, playback means for replaying the decompressed frame, selection means for selecting an arbitrary frame displayed during playback by said playback means, and still picture data recording means for recording a frame selected by said selection means as still picture data onto said recording medium.