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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2000
Charles E Schinner, San Diego, CA (US);
Brad Beall, Poway, CA (US);
Jerry R. Potts, Escondido, CA (US);
Charles E Schinner, San Diego, CA (US);
Brad Beall, Poway, CA (US);
Jerry R. Potts, Escondido, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a digital still camera includes: an image sensor for receiving light and generating output signals representative of an image of an object or a scene of interest; a processing circuit connected to the image sensor for processing the output signals from the image sensor; and a control circuit connected to the processing circuit for successively generating a plurality of image files and for determining a remaining picture count after each image file is generated based on one of a plurality of predetermined decrement numbers corresponding to an actual image file size of each image file.