Abstract: An embodiment of a camera apparatus includes an image display control unit, which displays a moving image in a reduced state while displaying multiple reduced images in a display unit for displaying images held in a recording unit having an image file, when a moving image is included in the multiple reduced images and playback of the moving image is selected. This permits playing a moving image continuously in a reduced state, when the moving image is included in multiple reduced images.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a capturing apparatus includes a capturing unit configured to capture a moving image video, a storage unit configured to store the moving image video captured by the capturing unit, an operation unit configured to include a plurality of keys used to instruct playback of the moving image video stored in the storage unit, a skip playback unit configured to play back the moving image video while skipping the moving image video at predetermined time intervals every time a predetermined operation is made on the operation unit, and a playback control unit configured to switch the time intervals skipped by the skip playback unit based on the total playback time period of the moving image video.

Abstract: At least one image file containing an image to be printed is selected from the image files recorded in a recording medium, for example, HDD by a user. Then a camera and a printer are connected. Responsive to a file information transmission request that requests the transmission of all image files recorded in a media, a digital camera transmits only the file information and the file ID of each of the image files selected by the user to the printer. After authentication, the digital camera transmits the file. ID of each of all the selected image files responsive to a file ID transmission request that requests the transmission of image files to be printed, from the printer.

Abstract: An embodiment of the invention is to record a predetermined information on a recording medium by connecting to a predetermined interface, so that an image signal held on a recording medium is readable from an external storage unit provided separately from the recording medium, and the recording medium is recognizable, when displaying a digital video camera in a list of recording media in an image recording/processing unit that is an external unit when viewed from the digital video camera, in order to provide a digital video camera, in which a recording medium itself included in the digital video camera is recognizable by an image recording/processing unit.

Abstract: According to an embodiment of the invention, in a digital video camera using a non-tape recording medium, the user can select whether to save a moving image file in a divided form or as one file, when recording a moving image, by changing the function of a REC button. When one moving image file has been saved in a divided form, a moving image file to be reproduced is easily searched, and a moving image is quickly played from an object chapter, or from a divided sub-file.

Abstract: One embodiment of an invention provides a method of creating a database of positions of file management information, or start positions of file data of each file, in a file system, and an apparatus configured to realize the method. According to an embodiment of the invention, the existence of an image file indicated in a specific file format is searched according to file management information indicating file formats, when playback of an image is instructed, and the management information is stored in a database when the existence of management information expressed in a specific format is searched. Information which indicates a record start position of an image file in a recording unit, given the management information of a higher-order folder including the stored management information, is stored in a database.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a camera apparatus comprises an adapter connecting section. The adapter connecting section can be connected to a cradle. An arbitrary number of external recording apparatuses are connected to the camera apparatus via the cradle. An image signal stored in a recording medium of the camera apparatus can be output to the external recording apparatuses via the cradle through a LAN. A monitor section of the camera apparatus can display the arbitrary number of external recording apparatuses, to which the image signal stored in the recording medium of the camera apparatus can be transferred.

Abstract: A camera apparatus of one embodiment of the invention, a recording area including a recording capacity corresponding to a recording capacity of a semiconductor memory is detachable from or preliminarily built in the camera apparatus or a record medium prepared in an externally connected recorder, is provided in a recording area of a hard disk drive. Data groups stored in the recording area including a recording capacity set to be at most the recording capacity of the new recording area corresponding to the semiconductor memory prepared in the externally connected recorder, able to be transferred to the semiconductor memory or the externally connected recorder, by one operation, as a single unit of the data group stored in the new recording area.

Abstract: In an embodiment of a camera apparatus according to the invention, a playback streaming signal which is output from a recording medium and in a compressed state is transferred to a map defined in a memory, the transferred playback streaming signal is decoded by a decoder, and converted to a YUV signal in an image processor, and transferred to a map as a YUV signal, a magnified or reduced image is generated from the YUV signal by an image processor, and stored on a map, the magnified or reduced image prepared on a map is overlaid according to a magnify playback request, the overlaid image is output to seek an output position, and the image is erased by gradually increasing the transmissivity of a reduced image, when an instruction is not input for predetermined time.

Abstract: An embodiment of a camera apparatus includes transferring a compressed playback streaming signal output from a recording medium to a map defined in a memory circuit, decoding the transferred playback streaming signal by a decoder, converting the decoded signal to a YUV signal in an image processing unit, transferring the converted signal to the map as a YUV signal, generating a magnified or reduced image from the YUV signal in the image processing unit, and storing the image on the map, overlaying a magnified or reduced image prepared on the map according to a magnified playback request, and outputting the overlaid image for seeking an output position.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a display unit configured to align and display a plurality of selection candidates on an arc, and identify and display a selection target of the plurality of selection candidates. A rotary member is arranged almost concentrically with the arc. An identification display control unit is configured to control a change of the selection target along the plurality of selection candidates aligned on the arc on the basis of rotation of the rotary member.

Abstract: A digital camera in this invention includes a rotary member, display unit, and display control unit. The display unit displays a selection screen on which a predetermined number of selection candidates are aligned, and identifies and displays the predetermined selection target of the predetermined number of selection candidates. The display control unit controls the transition direction of an identification display target on the basis of the rotational direction of the rotary member, identifies and displays an immediately succeeding selection candidate of the predetermined selection candidate on the basis of the first rotational speed of the rotary member, and identifies and displays an at least second succeeding selection candidate of the predetermined selection candidate on the basis of the second rotational speed of the rotary member.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus has a preparation unit configured to photograph an object, and to prepare an image file with a preparation date and time in accordance with image information of the object, a recording unit configured to have a recording region, and a control unit configured to control so as to detect a preparation date and time of an image folder prepared within the recording region, to newly prepare an image folder within the recording region of the recording unit when a period from a preparation date and time T1 of the image file to a preparation date and time T2 of the image folder is longer than a date and time interval (Cf. one day, one week, one month, or the like) set in advance, and to store the image file prepared at the preparation unit under the folder.

Abstract: A digital camera device includes a digital compressed image data generating unit which generates digital compressed image data having a large number of a group of pictures (GPOs) having a plurality of picture frames based on a video signal generated by picking-up an image of a subject by an image pick-up, and which adds, to a header (SH) of the picture group, address information on a predetermined picture frame (P picture) in the picture groups of the digital compressed image data. The digital compressed image data is recorded to the recording medium. Thus, the picked-up and generated image data is fast transferred to an image recording and reproducing device without deterioration.

Abstract: An image display apparatus including a liquid crystal panel for displaying an image-picked-up image, a touch panel on an image display screen of the liquid crystal panel, and a microcomputer having a display area setting unit that, when the image display screen of the liquid crystal panel is covered by a user's finger, detects the finger position on the touch panel and sets an image display area on the image display screen of the liquid crystal panel in accordance with the detected user's finger position.

Abstract: A digital camera comprising a display unit, a sound-level detecting unit and a display control unit. The sound-level detecting unit detects a level at which an audio signal is being recorded. The display control unit causes the display unit to display the level detected by the sound-level detecting unit.

Abstract: The present invention provides a digital camera that has an EVF, an LCD screen, a switching unit, and display-state restoring unit. The switching unit switches display to the EVF or the LCD screen in accordance with an input signal. The display-state restoring unit automatically restores the EVF and the LCD screen to states that they assume before the switching unit switches the display, when a process initiated by the input signal is completed.

Abstract: There is disclosed a digital still camera in which a direction and speed of a tracing operation by user's fingertips on a touch panel are judged and a dynamic image reproduction process is executed in accordance with the direction and speed. For example, fast forward/rewind reproduction of a dynamic image is executed in response to a long and fast tracing operation to the right from the left or to the left from the right.

Abstract: A microcomputer detects tracing on a touch panel, detects the traced pattern and controls each unit to execute advancing/backing or deleting the image according to the detected pattern. The microcomputer also changes the display mode from standard play mode to magnify mode or thumbnail display mode.