Abstract: According to the image reproducing device, the image reproducing method, the image reproducing program and the image capturing device of the present invention, if a face image is not detected in an image, a main object can be zoomed by detecting the center part of the image or a focused object. If a plurality of face images are detected from an image, the detected face images can be zoomed in order by simple operation.

Abstract: A digital camera outputs image data received from an image pickup unit. Image information has the image data that include information indicating shift of a blackbody locus of the digital camera. Image information has the image data that include color gain information based on settings at the pick-up time, and color gain data, which were adjusted in advance for various types of light sources, for white balance process that is set manually. Image information has the image data includes color gain information based on settings at the pick-up time, and color gain information obtained by performing auto white balance process at the pick-up time.

Abstract: When a PC establishes a communication via the Internet with another external PC, at least one of investigation methods is executed prior to a commencement of the communication in a system provided by this invention. The methods are an IP address investigation for investigating whether it is global or private; an IP address comparison for comparing an IP address recognized by an external terminal with the IP address which has been allocated to the own terminal; and a port-scanning judgement for judging as to the PC can access the external PC by executing a port-scanning with respect to a port used by the communication application program from the external terminal. By those methods, when there is a possibility that the communication application program cannot be used due to a certain reason of the investigated network environment, this fact is displayed on a screen so as to be notified to the user.

Abstract: According to the image reproducing device, the image reproducing method, the image reproducing program and the image capturing device of the present invention, if a face image is not detected in an image, a main object can be zoomed by detecting the center part of the image or a focused object. If a plurality of face images are detected from an image, the detected face images can be zoomed in order by simple operation.

Abstract: An image comparative display method having displaying two images; that is, a first image and a second image, on a monitor screen in a side-by-side arrangement, wherein the first image is selected by a first set of images, and the second image is selected by a second set of images, wherein the monitor screen is split into a first region that displays the first image; a second region that displays the second image; a third region adjacent to the first region, the third region displaying at least one first thumbnail image corresponding to at least one image from the first set of images; and a fourth region adjacent to the second region, the fourth region displaying at least one second thumbnail image corresponding to at least one image from the second set of images.

Abstract: A digital camera outputs image data received from an image pickup unit. Image information has the image data that include information indicating shift of a blackbody locus of the digital camera. Image information has the image data that include color gain information based on settings at the pick-up time, and color gain data, which were adjusted in advance for various types of light sources, for white balance process that is set manually. Image information has the image data includes color gain information based on settings at the pick-up time, and color gain information obtained by performing auto white balance process at the pick-up time.

Abstract: When a PC establishes a communication via the Internet with another external PC, at least one of investigation methods is executed prior to a commencement of the communication in a system provided by this invention. The methods are an IP address investigation for investigating whether it is global or private; an IP address comparison for comparing an IP address recognized by an external terminal with the IP address which has been allocated to the own terminal; and a port-scanning judgement for judging as to the PC can access the external PC by executing a port-scanning with respect to a port used by the communication application program from the external terminal. By those methods, when there is a possibility that the communication application program cannot be used due to a certain reason of the investigated network environment, this fact is displayed on a screen so as to be notified to the user.

Abstract: Power consumption in a still-video camera at playback of pixel data is suppressed. Image data indicative of each pixel is written in a frame memory in synchronization with a prescribed clock frequency (14.32 MHz) in a photographic mode. At the time of playback, a clock signal whose frequency (7.16 MHz) is half that of the clock signal in the photographic mode is applied to each circuit block of the camera. The value of the count in an H-direction address counter for outputting address data in the horizontal direction is doubled in a doubler circuit. Data representing the doubled value of the count is applied to a frame memory as horizontal-direction address data. As a result, the frame memory outputs pixel data that is thinned out every other pixel, and the outputted data is sent to a playback processing circuit.

Abstract: An IC memory card system has a host for processing data, and an IC memory card removably connected to the host and incorporating a data recording medium implemented by an electrically erasable programmable semiconductor memory. The host comprises a system controller for sending to the memory card an address/data signal for distinguishing an address and data by a logical bilevel state, a read/write signal for distinguishing reading of data and writing of data in the semiconductor memory by a logical bilevel state, and an erase signal for erasing data stored in the semiconductor memory by a logical bilevel state as control signals, and bus clock pulses each being synchronous to a particular address and particular data.

Abstract: An audio/video data reproducing apparatus reads out data from a first storage, which has its storage area equally divided into clusters and stores audio/video data on a cluster-by-cluster basis, to transfer the data read out to utility equipment over a communication path. A second storage stores address data designating clusters of the first storage. Clusters including data to be read out are searched for, and the address data designating the clusters thus searched for is stored in the second storage in a predetermined order. The address data is then sequentially read out from the second storage to generate a real address addressing a storage location of the storage area, which is in turn provided with the real address to develop the stored data in the predetermined order. In response to an error occurring during the transmission on the communication path, the second storage is interrupted from developing the address data therefrom.