Digital camera and data management method
A digital camera capable of compensating a portion of a captured image with another image without putting a squeeze on storage capacity. The digital camera has a plurality of image-capturing systems capable of essentially simultaneously capturing images of a single subject at mutually-different angles of view. Information about relevant image data which are items of the other simultaneously-captured image data is imparted as relevant information to at least one item of image data among items of image data captured by the plurality of image-capturing systems. The image data imparted with the relevant information and the relevant image data captured simultaneously with the image data are stored as separate items of data in user memory which serves as storage means.
1. A digital imaging system comprising:
(a) a digital camera comprising:
(i) a first image-capturing system having a wide-angle view which captures a first image of a subject and produces first image data, and a second image capture system having a telescopic view which essentially simultaneously captures a second image of the subject and produces second image data; and
(ii) a memory for storing the first image data, the second image data, and related information including at least one magnification value and at least two coordinate values which indicate the positional relationships between the first image and the second image; and
(b) a printer for printing images captured by the digital camera, wherein the printer uses the related information and the second image data in order to compensate a center portion of the first image data to produce print data, and uses the print data to produce a printed image; wherein the print data corresponding to the central portion of the printed image; is produced using only the second image data.
2. A digital imaging system comprising:
(a) a digital camera comprising:
(i) a first image-capturing system having a wide-angle view which captures a first image of a subject and produces first image data, and a second image capture system having a telescopic view which essentially simultaneously captures a second image of the subject and produces second image data; and
(ii) a memory for storing the first image data, the second image data, and related information including at least one magnification value and at least two coordinate values which indicate the positional relationships between the first image and the second image; and
(b) a printer for printing images captured by the digital camera, wherein the printer uses the related information and the second image data in order to compensate a center portion of the first image data to produce print data, and uses the print data to produce a printed image; wherein the print data corresponding to a boundary area adjacent to the central portion of the printed image is produced using a weighted average of the first image data and the second image data.