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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 26, 1999
Noboru Yumoto, Fussa, JP;
Keiichi Kobayashi, Hamura, JP;
Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In an ordinary shooting mode, when a user overlooks a shutter chance without conducting a shutter operation in a state in which a present through (finder) image is presented on a display section, or a user finds that the user has lost a shutter chance by confirming a shot still image or conducting another operation after operating a shutter button, if a prescribed operation (half pressing down of the shutter button or operation of a mode switching button) is conducted, a mode is switched to a through-image retrieving mode wherein, a through image displayed on the display section is replaced with past through images while being retrieved effective, and the user awaits a second shutter chance in a state in which a past through image is present on the display section and when the shutter button is operated, a past through image present at a time point of the operation of the shutter button is recorded for retention in a flash memory as a shot still image.