Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Takeki Kageyama

Makoto Hirata

A digital camera includes a first CPUand a second CPU. The first CPUdetermines an operation of a release buttonwhich instructs to photograph an object, and a photographing request is issued when the release buttonis operated. On the other hand, the second CPUphotographs the object by driving a CCD imagerwhen the photographing request is issued, and stores image data of the object photographed into an SDRAMin a compressed state. The second CPUfurther records into a memory cardcompressed image data stored in the SDRAMpredetermined amount by predetermined amount, and determines whether or not the photographing request is issued every time that a recording of the predetermined amount is completed.

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Osaka, Japan

Takeki Kageyama