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a digital camera and camera body technology, applied in the field of digital cameras, can solve the problems of complex operation of creating or editing dpof files, and achieve the effects of reducing the time for designating preset data, reducing the time for designating, and simplifying and facilitating operation

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-08-17
SEIKO EPSON CORP
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The present invention provides a digital camera that allows easy input and editing of preset data regarding image data. The camera has a dedicated interface unit that allows for quick input or editing of the preset data, such as the number of printing the image data. The dedicated interface unit has a push button switch and a memory unit for storing a copy of the preset data. The camera is designed to make it easy for users to input and edit the preset data, even when the image data is displayed on the screen. This simplifies the process of setting the camera and reduces the time required for designating the preset data.

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In this manner, in the related digital camera, the operation of creating or editing the DPOF file is some complex.

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[0037] One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

[0038]FIGS. 2, 3, 4 and 5 are a front view, a rear view, a plan view and a functional block diagram of a digital still camera according to the embodiment of the invention, respectively. An input unit as defined in the claims comprises an optical system 11, an area sensor 12, and an analog front end 13 (APE). A nonvolatile recording medium as defined in the claims comprises a removable memory 18. A first storing unit comprises an image generating section 14, a color space conversion section 15, a compression processing section 16, a file section 17, a CPU 20, and a memory device 19 (MS). A display unit as defined in the claims comprises the CPU 20 and a display unit 22. A dedicated interface unit as defined in the claims comprises a part of an operation section 21 including a DPOF specific switch 41. A second storing unit as defined in the claims comprises the CPU 20, t...

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Printing the image data displayed on an LCD (38) and its print number or incrementing the print number by one can be specified only by depressing a DPOF dedicated switch (41) while the still image is being displayed on the LCD (38). For example, if the DPOF dedicated switch (41) is depressed when still image is being displayed in a reproduction mode, the print number of displayed image data is set to one, and if the DPOF dedicated switch (41) is depressed successively without changing the displayed image, the print number of the image data is set to two.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION [0001] This is a Continuation of application Ser. No. 10 / 052,911 filed Jan. 23, 2002. The entire disclosure of the prior application is hereby incorporated by reference.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] The present invention relates to a digital camera, and more particularly to a digital camera with the preset data regarding the image data. [0003] In recent years, along with the rapid spread of the digital camera, there is an increasing demand for utilizing an image through a removable memory between devices, such that the image captured by the digital camera is played by another digital camera, or output directly to the printer. For this demand, the file format for recording the image captured by the digital camera on a variety of kinds of removable memory has been standardized. [0004] One of the file formats for recording the preset data regarding the image data is the DPOF (Digital Print Order Format) (Version 1.00) as released in 1999, and...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): H04N5/76H04N1/21H04N5/225H04N5/765H04N5/907H04N5/91H04N101/00
CPCH04N1/00458H04N1/00461H04N1/00482H04N1/2112H04N1/32101H04N5/23245H04N5/23293H04N5/772H04N5/907H04N9/8047H04N9/8205H04N2101/00H04N2201/3242H04N2201/3274H04N23/667H04N23/63
Inventor NISHI, NOBUYUKINAKAJIMA, YASUMASA
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORP