Digital camera creating moving image files from a plurality of captured still images
View Patent ↗A digital camera 10 includes a CCD imager 14. When an interval photographing or an animation photographing is selected, an object is photographed by the CCD imager 14 for a plurality of times, and compressed image data is generated each photographing by each photographing. The generated compressed image data is stored in a temporary area of an magnetooptical disk 42. Upon completion of photographing the desired number of frames, the generated respective compressed image data are converted into a moving image file, and moved to a proper recording area of the magnetooptical disk 42. Frame rate information is written in the moving image file. Upon reproducing, firstly, the frame rate information is detected, the compressed image data of each frame is reproduced in accordance with this information. The moving image that moves at a desired speed is displayed on a monitor 30.
1. A digital camera, comprising:
an imaging device for carrying out a plurality of photographing processes in accordance with a photographing condition under an interval photographing mode or an animation photographing mode, the plurality of photographing processes creating a moving image formed from a plurality of still images having adjacent still images and a time interval between adjacent still images;
an acceptor for monitoring and selecting, during the time interval between adjacent still images of the moving image created by the plurality of photographing processes which is carried out under the interval photographing mode or the animation photographing mode, any one of a lock state and an unlock state with respect to each of a plurality of parameters which define the photographing condition for each still image of the moving image created by the plurality of photographing processes;
an adjuster for adjusting only one or more parameters on which a selection of the unlock state is selected by said acceptor out of the plurality of parameters based on output of said imaging device during the time interval between adjacent still images of the moving image created by the plurality of photographing processes under the interval photographing mode or the animation-photographing mode; and
a creator for creating a file of the moving image formed from the plurality of still images created by the plurality of photographing processes which is carried out under the interval photographing mode or the animation photographing mode.
2. A digital camera according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a storage that stores the plurality of still images created by the plurality of photographing processes into a non-volatile memory area; and
a creator that creates the moving image file based on the plurality of still images stored in said memory area.
3. A digital camera according to claim 1 , wherein said creator creates the moving image file within a recording medium, and said memory area is formed within said recording medium.
4. A digital camera according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an assigner for assigning period information to the moving image file; and
a reproducer for reproducing the plurality of still images from the moving image file in a period indicated by the period information.
5. A digital camera according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of parameters includes an exposure amount and a focus.
6. A digital camera according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of parameters includes a white balance.
7. A digital camera according to claim 1 , wherein the time interval between adjacent still images under each of the interval photographing mode and the animation photographing mode is longer than a time interval under a moving image photographing mode.