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Title:
IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE RECORDING PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE RECORDING PROCESSING PROGRAM
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2008109482
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide an imaging apparatus capable of achieving high image quality of an area needed by a user without imposing a load on hardware and to provide an image recording processing method and an image recording processing program.

An electronic still camera 10 being an imaging apparatus in which a CCD imaging element 20 photographs an object and electronically records the image of the object is provided with a second image processing part 34 for determining an area of interest in an image of an object to be electronically recorded during photographing, an image compressing/expanding part 36 for reversibly compressing image data of the area of interest or irreversibly compressing the image data with a compression rate lower than a specified value, and a consecutive photographing buffer 54 for recording the image data of the area of interest of a plurality of images by any image storage format of uncompressing, reversible compression by the image compressing/expanding part 36 and an irreversible compression by the image compressing/expanding part 36.


Inventors:
FURUKAWA EIJI
Application Number:
JP2006291512A
Publication Date:
May 08, 2008
Filing Date:
October 26, 2006
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Assignee:
OLYMPUS CORP
International Classes:
H04N5/91; H04N1/41; H04N5/225; H04N101/00
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Takehiko Suzue
Satoshi Kono
Makoto Nakamura
Kurata Masatoshi
Takashi Mine
Yoshihiro Fukuhara
Sadao Muramatsu
Ryo Hashimoto