Patent ID: 7576784

Claim:
An image acquiring apparatus disposed in a mobile telephone and electrically connected to an image sensor for acquiring an acquired image and outputting an original image signal, the apparatus comprising: an image processor for generating a first image signal according to the original image signal, wherein the first image signal comprises a first RGB image signal and a first YUV image signal; a data reduction unit for respectively reducing a data amount of the first RGB image signal and the first YUV image signal to generate a second RGB image signal and a second YUV image signal; and a buffer for storing the second RGB image signal and the second YUV image signal; wherein the image acquiring apparatus selectively outputs the second RGB image signal and a third RGB image signal converted from the second YUV image signal to a display unit; wherein the data reduction unit comprises a spatial point discarding unit for generating the second YUV image signal by way of spatial point discarding according to the first YUV image signal.