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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2004
Filed:
May. 26, 1999
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Moriguchi, JP;
Abstract
Digital camera includes a CCD imager having VGA resolution. The camera signal of subject image taken by the CCD imager is subjected to a predetermined process by a signal processing circuit, whereby image data is created having 640 pixel×980 lines. Meanwhile, a CPU enables cut-out circuit when a 1-tims mode is set by a zoom button, and a cut-out circuit when a 2-times mode is set by the zoom button. The thin-out circuit performs thinning out pixel data, every other pixels and lines, on the image data having 640 pixels×480 lines, outputting image data having 320 pixels×240 lines. The cut-out circuit cuts 320 pixels×240 lines of image data from a center of the image data of 640 pixels×480 lines.