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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 1991
Filed:
Dec. 08, 1989
Minoru Sasaki, Tokyo, JP;
Masafumi Umeda, Kawasaki, JP;
Yoshitomo Tagami, Yokohama, JP;
Akihiko Sugikawa, Yokohama, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
An electronic still camera has a memory card, which is detachably provided, for recording photographed image data. The electronic still camera comprises a data compression unit for compressing image data to be recorded, a mode selection unit provided in association with the data compression unit to select a recording mode or compression mode, a buffer memory for once storing the image data compressed in the compression mode selected by the mode selection unit, and a determination unit for determining whether or not the image data stored in the buffer memory can be recorded on the recording medium. In the electronic still camera, when the image data was determined to be unrecordable by the determination unit, the image data stored in the memory is stored in the buffer memory till the recording medias assumes a recordable state.