Method and apparatus for controlling the processing of signals containing defective pixels in accordance with imaging operation mode

摘要

A digital camera has a moving image mode in which display images are sequentially displayed on a color liquid crystal monitor and a still image mode in which a display image, captured in response to a release switch, is processed and recorded in a memory card. In the moving image mode, an analog signal processor performs previous-pixel-value interpolation for defective pixels. In the still image mode, calculation is made using data stored in a frame memory of a digital signal processor to perform interpolation for defective pixels.