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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 19, 1999
Amir Doron, San Diego, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A new and improved digital camera includes a zoom in switch and a zoom out switch to effect respective zoom in operations and zoom out operations in both an optical zoom mode of operation and a digital zoom mode of operation. A zoom control arrangement responds to the zoom in switch to decrease a maximum optical zoom factor by one incremental setting when a current digital zoom factor is not equal to a maximum digital zoom factor of about D to facilitate developing a smooth transition to a next incremental optical digital zoom factor setting. The next incremental optical digital zoom factor setting is an individual optical digital zoom factor in a combined optical digital zoom factor range from a minimum optical digital zoom factor product of about Z D to a maximum optical digital zoom factor product of about Z D . The zoom control arrangement further responds to the zoom out switch when the current digital zoom factor is not equal to a minimum digital zoom factor of about D to increase a minimum optical zoom factor of about Z by one incremental setting to facilitate developing a smooth transition to a next lower optical digital zoom factor setting.