Patent ID: 8045018

Claim:
A semiconductor integrated circuit used for a picture recording device for recording main picture data photographed by an image pickup device onto a recording medium, the semiconductor integrated circuit comprising: an imaging processing unit for signal-processing said main picture data outputted from said image pickup device; a zoom processing unit for performing picture resize processing in said main picture data signal-processed by said imaging processing unit; a display picture management unit for generating display picture data from the main picture data resized by said picture resize processing performed by said zoom processing unit, aside from said main picture data recorded onto said recording medium at the time of photographing, and then temporarily storing said display picture data in a memory area set inside or outside said semiconductor integrated circuit; and a display picture processing unit for performing display processing to said main picture data and said display picture data, a picture data compression-extension processing unit for compressing said display picture data, wherein: the compressed display picture data are stored in said memory area, said display picture management unit generates at least any one of “display picture data including pictures in which a plurality of pictures are pasted on a display frame region” and “display picture data including one picture matched with a display frame region” as said display picture data, said picture data compression-extension processing unit compresses said display picture data, and then said display picture management unit stores the compressed display picture data in said memory area, said “display picture data including a group of pictures in which a plurality of pictures are pasted on a display frame region” and “display picture data including one picture matched with a display frame region” are generated as said display picture data so as to temporarily store them in said memory area, and when said “display picture data including a group of pictures in which a plurality of pictures are pasted on a display frame region” is generated as said display picture data, said display picture management unit temporarily stores said display picture data including a group of pictures in said memory area without compressing said display picture data in the case where said main picture data has not been obtained up to a maximum number of said pictures pasted in said display frame region of said group of pictures.