Patent ID: 8692900

Claim:
A camera comprising: a camera picture capture switch; an image detector configured to, prior to actuation of the camera picture capture switch, continuously capture image frames and generate data representing each captured image frame; an image frame data converter coupled to the image detector and configured to, prior to and during actuation of the camera picture capture switch, convert data representing each captured image frame of a sequence into a corresponding, reduced-size image frame data file using an image frame data conversion process; a reduced-size image frame data file selector configured to determine, after actuation of the camera picture capture switch, if at least one best frames condition is met, and in response to the at least one best frames condition being met, to select a plurality of largest reduced-size image frame data files from a plurality of stored reduced-size image frame data files into which the image frame data converter converts the data representing captured image frames, the selected plurality of largest reduced-size image frame data files being fewer than the plurality of stored reduced-size image frame data files of the sequence for use by the camera to generate a plurality of facsimiles of a corresponding captured image; and, a display device coupled to at least one of the image frame data converter and the image detector, the display device configured to selectively display a plurality of images for selection, each image constructed from data obtained from one of the plurality of facsimiles of a corresponding captured image.