Patent ID: 6906746

Claim:
An image sensing system comprising: an image sensing unit for sensing an image of a subject and outputting image data representing the image of the subject; a volatile memory for temporarily storing the image data output from said image sensing unit; a first display controller for controlling a display unit in such a manner that the image of the subject represented by the image data that has been stored in said volatile memory is displayed on a display screen; a zoom-area designating unit for designating a zoom area in the image of the subject being displayed on the display screen; a recording controller for recording, on a recording medium, image data, which is contained in the image data output from said image sensing device, representing an image within the area designated by said zoom-area designating unit, wherein said recording controller records image data without interpolation processing; and an image sensing control unit for controlling said image sensing unit so as to output image data representing an image within an area which is smaller than a frame of image represented by the image data outputted from said image sensing unit, and which area is bigger than the zoom area designated by said zoom-area designating unit.