摘要 |
An electronic still camera wherein an image compression circuit can be simplified includes a lens system, a shutter, an image sensor and a processing circuit. A video signal for one frame outputted from the processing circuit in response to a shutter operation is written into a memory. A video signal read out from the memory is compressed in accordance with the JPEG system by an image compression circuit and then written into a memory card. The image sensor is constituted from an image pickup section and a product sum calculation section. A CMD image sensor capable of non-destructively reading out a picture signal is used as the image pickup section. The product sum calculation section performs DCT processing required for compression processing of the JPEG system. Since a detected image signal processed by DCT processing is obtained from the image sensor, DCT processing of the image compression circuit is unnecessary.
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