Patent ID: 6950127

Claim:
A portable camera being carried by an operator, comprising: a photographing section to photograph an object and to convert photoelectrically a photographed color image of the object into electrical image signals; a processing section to process the electrical image signals so as to output first color image data in the form of a first color data format to record color data of the photographed color image; a memory section in which a removable memory is accommodated, wherein the processing section records the photographed color image by storing the first color image data in the removable memory accommodated in the memory section; a color display section to display a color image, wherein the processing section processes the first color image data in the removable memory so that the color display section displays a color image corresponding to the first color image data; a terminal to transmit image data to an external device and to receive image data from an external device; wherein the portable camera is adapted to receive second color image data in the form of a second color data format different from the first color data format through the terminal from an external device to generate the second color data or by accommodating in the memory section a removable memory storing the second color image data generated by the external device, wherein the first color image data and the second color image data are digital image data including a data set of luminance data and color component data and the first color image data and the second color image data are different in data configuration of the color component data, wherein the color component data are represented by color difference data and the first color image data and the second color image data are different in data configuration of the color difference data, wherein the processing section processes the second color image data having the different configuration of the color difference data in such a way that the color display section displays a color image corresponding to the second color image data generated by the external device, and wherein the data configuration of the color difference data of one of the first color image data and the second color image data is Cr(Y−R):Cb(Y−B)=2:2 and that of the other one is Cr(Y−R):Cb (Y−B)=2:0.