Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Masaru Higashide

Masahiro Shioji

Hideshi Oeda

Hideki Toyoda

A system controller of a digital still camera turns off power supply of an LCD regardless of on/off position of an LCD switch, when the camera is connected to a personal computer and, hence, an LCD is unnecessary. Therefore, wasteful power consumption can be reduced, and the camera can be driven for a long period of time even by a battery or cell.

Image recording and reproducing apparatus

A digital still camera has an image memory for storing a plurality of image groups. Each image group includes nine normal images and a reduced image obtained by thinning pixels of each normal image for reduction to 1/9. When a mode pattern is pressed to indicate forward/backward screen-feeding in a nine-screen multi-reproduction mode, a control circuit feeds forwards or backwards nine reduced images displayed on a liquid crystal screen for each group at one time. Images can thus be retrieved more rapidly than in conventional examples which require operating a forward/backward screen-feed button nine times to feed nine reduced images forwards or backwards.

Image reproduction apparatus with multiple-screen display mode

An electronic image recording apparatus is a digital still camera, for example. If a camera mode is set by using a mode selecting button, an image signal from an imager is compressed and recorded into a flash memory. Then, if a sound button is depressed, during a constant time period, a sound signal to the image data is compressed and written into the memory. At this time, an address of an area in which the sound data is recorded is written in an image data area. If a continuous reproducing mode is set by the mode selecting button, a CPU reads first image data from the memory, and expands the image data and writes into a VRAM. Therefore, the first image data is displayed on an attached liquid crystal monitor. The CPU determines whether or not the recording address of the sound data is written in the image data area. When the address is recorded, a first sound data is read from the memory according to the address, and the first sound data is expanded and outputted on a speaker and etc. The sound data is recorded for the constant time period, and therefore, the CPU reproduces second image data after the first sound data is wholly reproduced.

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Osaka, Japan

Masaru Higashide