JP2000299800A - Imaging method and apparatus, and storage medium - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Problem] To provide an imaging method and apparatus capable of effectively using a recording medium having a limited recording capacity. SOLUTION: While shooting in a moving image shooting mode, a remaining number of shootable images calculated by a system controller 113 is displayed on a liquid crystal display 112.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an imaging method and apparatus for recording a still image and a moving image on a recording medium such as a memory or a disk, and a storage medium storing a control program for controlling the imaging apparatus.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, digital still cameras for recording a still image in a flash memory have rapidly become widespread.

Conventionally, this type of digital still camera is an image pickup device that records only a still image. However, recently, the capacity of a flash memory as a recording medium has been increased, and the recording of the still image has been performed at high speed. A digital still camera that can easily record a moving image by using a continuous method has been developed. This digital still camera has a still image shooting mode and a moving image shooting mode, the remaining number of still images that can be shot is only in the still image shooting mode, and the remaining shooting time of a moving image is in the moving image shooting mode. Only the information was displayed on a liquid crystal display or the like.

[0004]

However, in the above-described conventional digital still camera, for example, when it is desired to know the remaining number of still images that can be shot at the time of shooting a moving image,
It was necessary to temporarily stop shooting a moving image and switch to a still image shooting mode. Therefore, since only the remaining shooting time of the moving image is displayed during the shooting of the moving image, there is a problem that the flash memory is used up and a still image cannot be shot.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems of the conventional technology, and a first object of the present invention is to effectively use a recording medium having a limited recording capacity. It is an object of the present invention to provide an imaging method and apparatus capable of performing such operations.

A second object of the present invention is to provide a storage medium storing a control program capable of smoothly controlling the above-described imaging apparatus of the present invention.

[0007]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an image pickup method comprising: a moving image photographing mode for photographing a moving image; and a still image photographing mode for photographing a still image. An imaging method for imaging by a device, comprising: a recording medium remaining amount detecting step of detecting a remaining amount of a recording medium of a recording medium; and a moving image based on the remaining amount of the recording medium of the recording medium detected by the recording medium remaining amount detecting step. Moving image remaining amount calculating step for calculating the remaining recordable time of the still image, and still image remaining amount calculating for calculating the remaining number of recordable still images from the remaining amount of recording capacity of the recording medium detected by the recording medium remaining amount detecting step. A display step of displaying the photographed image and the calculation result of the calculation step; and displaying the calculation result of the still image remaining amount calculation step during the shooting in the moving image shooting mode by the display step. Characterized by a control step of sea urchin control.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided an imaging method according to the first aspect, further comprising: a still image compression step of compressing data of the still image; A compression ratio selection step of selecting a compression amount of data by a compression step, wherein the remaining image remaining amount calculation step includes the compression ratio selected in the compression ratio selection step immediately before entering the moving image shooting mode. Is used to calculate the number of shootable still images.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided an imaging method according to the first or second aspect, wherein the recording medium is a flash memory.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an imaging method according to the first or second aspect, wherein the recording medium is a magnetic disk.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an imaging method according to the first or second aspect, wherein the imaging apparatus is a digital still camera. And

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an imaging method according to the first aspect, wherein the imaging apparatus is a digital video camera. And

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, there is provided an imaging apparatus having at least a moving image shooting mode for shooting a moving image and a still image shooting mode for shooting a still image. A recording medium remaining amount detecting means for detecting a remaining amount of the recording capacity of the recording medium, and a moving image for calculating a remaining recordable time of the moving image from the remaining amount of the recording medium of the recording medium detected by the remaining recording medium amount detecting means. Remaining amount calculating means,
A still image remaining amount calculating unit for calculating the remaining number of recordable still images from the remaining amount of the recording capacity of the recording medium detected by the recording medium remaining amount detecting unit, and a calculation result of the photographed image and the calculating unit And a control unit for controlling the display unit to display the calculation result of the still image remaining amount calculation unit during shooting in the moving image shooting mode.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an image capturing apparatus according to the present invention, further comprising: a still image compressing means for compressing the data of the still image; Compression ratio selection means for selecting the amount of data compression by the compression means, wherein the still image remaining amount calculation means includes a compression ratio selected by the compression ratio selection means immediately before entering the moving image shooting mode. Is used to calculate the number of shootable still images.

According to a ninth aspect of the present invention, in order to achieve the first object, the recording medium is a flash memory.

According to a tenth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an imaging apparatus according to the seventh or eighth aspect, wherein the recording medium is a magnetic disk.

In order to achieve the first object, an image pickup apparatus according to claim 11 is the image pickup apparatus according to claims 7 to 9 or 10, wherein the image pickup apparatus is a digital still camera. And

According to a twelfth aspect of the present invention, in order to achieve the first object, the imaging apparatus is a digital video camera. And

According to a thirteenth aspect of the present invention, in order to achieve the first object, an image is captured by an imaging device having at least a moving image shooting mode for shooting a moving image and a still image shooting mode for shooting a still image. An imaging method, comprising: a recording medium remaining amount detecting step of detecting a remaining amount of a recording medium of a recording medium; A moving image remaining amount calculating step of calculating time, a still image remaining amount calculating step of calculating a remaining number of recordable still images from the remaining amount of the recording capacity of the recording medium detected by the recording medium remaining amount detecting step, A display step of displaying a photographed image and a calculation result of the calculation step; and a display step of displaying the calculation result of the moving image remaining amount calculation step during shooting in the still image shooting mode. Characterized by a control step of.

According to a fourteenth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an imaging method according to the thirteenth aspect, wherein the moving image compression step includes compressing the moving image data. A compression ratio selection step of selecting a data compression size, wherein the moving image remaining amount calculation step uses the compression ratio selected in the compression ratio selection step immediately before entering the still image shooting mode. The number of still images that can be shot is calculated.

According to a fifteenth aspect of the present invention, in order to achieve the first object, in the thirteenth or fourteenth aspect, the recording medium is a flash memory.

In order to achieve the first object, an imaging method according to claim 16 is the imaging method according to claim 13 or 14, wherein the recording medium is a magnetic disk.

In order to achieve the first object, the imaging method according to claim 17 is based on claims 13 to 15 or 1
7. The imaging method according to claim 6, wherein the imaging device is a digital still camera.

Further, in order to achieve the first object, the imaging method according to claim 18 is based on claims 13 to 15 or 1
7. The imaging method according to 6, wherein the imaging device is a digital video camera.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an imaging apparatus having at least a moving image shooting mode for shooting a moving image and a still image shooting mode for shooting a still image. A recording medium remaining amount detecting means for detecting the remaining amount of the recording capacity of the recording medium, and a moving image for calculating the remaining recordable time of the moving image from the remaining amount of the recording medium of the recording medium detected by the remaining recording medium amount Remaining image calculating means for calculating the remaining number of recordable still images from the remaining amount of recording capacity of the recording medium detected by the recording medium remaining amount detecting means; Display means for displaying the calculation result of the calculation means; and control means for controlling the display means to display the calculation result of the moving image remaining amount calculation means during shooting in the still image shooting mode. It is characterized in.

According to a twentieth aspect of the present invention, in order to achieve the first object, in the imaging device according to the nineteenth aspect, the moving image compression means for compressing the data of the moving image includes: Compression ratio selection means for selecting the size of data compression, wherein the moving image remaining amount calculation means uses the compression rate selected by the compression rate selection means immediately before entering the still image shooting mode. The number of still images that can be shot is calculated.

In order to achieve the first object, an image pickup apparatus according to claim 21 is the image pickup apparatus according to claim 19 or 20, wherein the recording medium is a flash memory.

In order to achieve the first object, an image pickup apparatus according to claim 22 is the image pickup apparatus according to claim 19 or 20, wherein the recording medium is a magnetic disk.

In order to achieve the first object, the image pickup apparatus according to the twenty-third aspect of the present invention provides the imaging apparatus according to the nineteenth to the twenty-first aspects.
3. The imaging device according to item 2, wherein the imaging device is a digital still camera.

In order to achieve the first object, the image pickup apparatus according to the twenty-fourth aspect of the present invention provides the imaging apparatus according to the nineteenth to twenty-first or twenty-second aspects.
3. The imaging device according to item 2, wherein the imaging device is a digital video camera.

In order to achieve the second object, a storage medium according to claim 25 controls an image pickup apparatus having at least a moving image shooting mode for shooting a moving image and a still image shooting mode for shooting a still image. Storage medium storing a control program for detecting the remaining amount of the recording capacity of the recording medium, and calculating the remaining recordable time of the moving image from the detected remaining amount of the recording capacity of the recording medium. Calculating, calculating the remaining number of recordable still images from the detected remaining storage capacity of the recording medium, displaying the image to be shot and the calculation result, and while shooting in the moving image shooting mode. A control module for controlling to display the calculation result of the remaining amount of the still image.

In order to achieve the second object, the storage medium according to claim 26 is the storage medium according to claim 25, wherein the control program compresses the data of the still image, A control module for selecting a size and controlling to calculate the number of still images that can be shot using the compression rate selected immediately before entering the moving image shooting mode.

In order to achieve the second object, a storage medium according to claim 27 controls an image pickup apparatus having at least a moving image shooting mode for shooting a moving image and a still image shooting mode for shooting a still image. A storage medium storing a control program for detecting the remaining amount of recording capacity of the recording medium, calculating the remaining recordable time of the moving image from the detected remaining amount of recording capacity of the recording medium, Calculating the remaining number of recordable still images from the remaining recording capacity of the recording medium, displaying the image to be captured and the calculation result,
A control module for controlling to display the calculation result of the remaining amount of the moving image while shooting in the still image shooting mode.

In order to achieve the second object, the storage medium according to claim 28 is the storage medium according to claim 27, wherein the control program compresses moving image data, And a control module for controlling to calculate the number of still images that can be shot using the selected compression ratio immediately before entering the still image shooting mode.

[0035]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a digital still camera which is an image pickup apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 101 denotes a photographing lens for capturing an object, and 102 denotes a lens drive motor. , Shooting lens 1
01 is driven to form a subject image on an image sensor described later. Reference numeral 103 denotes an aperture, which controls the amount of light to an image sensor described later. An image sensor 104 converts a subject captured by the photographing lens 101 into an image signal. 105 is CDS
An image signal output from the image sensor 104 is sampled and held by an (correlated double sampling) / AGC (automatic gain adjustment) circuit to obtain an appropriate signal level.

Reference numeral 106 denotes a digital signal processing circuit, which is a CDS.
The image signal output from the / AGC circuit 105 is A (analog) / D (digital) converted to perform digital signal processing.

Reference numeral 107 denotes JPEG (Joint Photo).
A digital image signal output from the digital signal processing circuit 106 is compressed by a JPEG method (JPEG compression) and a JPEG compressed data recorded on a recording medium to be described later is decompressed by an optical expert group processing circuit (image compression circuit). . A recording medium 108 such as a flash memory or a magnetic disk records JPEG compressed data output from the JPEG processing circuit 107.

Reference numeral 109 denotes NTSC (National T)
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e) The digital signal processing circuit 10 at the time of photographing by the encoder.
6 and the digital image signal output from the JPEG processing circuit 107 at the time of reproduction is converted into an NTSC image signal and output. A signal output terminal 110 outputs an image signal, and a liquid crystal driver 111 outputs a digital image signal similar to that of the NTSC encoder 109 to a liquid crystal display described later.

Reference numeral 112 denotes a liquid crystal display built in the main body.
Display an image or the like. 113 is a system controller,
An operation from an operation key is received, the operation is performed, and the remaining amount of the recording capacity of the recording medium 108 is calculated. 114 is a camera controller, among the operations described above.
In particular, it controls the focus and exposure of the taking lens 101. Reference numeral 115 denotes a shutter button for operating a shutter, and reference numeral 116 denotes a character generator, which stores character information to be superimposed on the liquid crystal display 112 or the signal output terminal 110.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a JPEG processing circuit (image compression circuit) 107 in the imaging apparatus according to the present embodiment.

In the figure, reference numeral 201 denotes a pixel number conversion / raster-block conversion unit; and 202, DCT (discrete cosine)
A transform unit, 203 is a quantization unit, 204 is a Huffman coding unit, 205 is a scaling factor, 206 is a quantization table given to the quantization unit 203, 207 is a Huffman table given to the Huffman coding unit 204, 208
Denotes a CPU (Central Processing Unit), and 209 denotes a multiplier.

In the JPEG processing circuit 107 having the above-described configuration, the input digital image signal composed of the luminance / color difference in the raster format is converted by the pixel number conversion / raster-block conversion unit 201 into the same pixel number in the case of recording a still image. In the case of moving image recording, both the vertical and horizontal pixels are thinned to half the number of pixels, and furthermore, the pixel number conversion / raster-block conversion unit 201 is used.
The data is divided into blocks of 8 pixels × 8 pixels, and becomes data represented by an 8 × 8 square matrix.

Next, a transform called DCT (discrete cosine) is performed in the DCT transform section 202. Subsequently, the quantization unit 203 performs quantization to obtain a data string arranged in a line in an order called zigzag scan. As the quantization table value used for the quantization, a value stored in the quantization table 206 and multiplied by the multiplier 209 by the scaling factor 205 determined by the CPU 208 is used. Further, the Huffman coding unit 204 performs conversion called Huffman coding, and the image compression ends. On this occasion,
A signal indicating the compressed code amount is also output.

The CPU 208 controls the scaling factor 205 based on the code amount, and controls the code amount to be a predetermined amount. The predetermined amount is determined according to each of the still image high image quality mode, the still image low image quality mode, the moving image high image quality mode, and the moving image low image quality mode.

Next, the operation of the imaging apparatus having the above configuration will be described.
This will be described with reference to FIGS. 1, 2 and 3.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a flow of the operation of the imaging apparatus according to the present embodiment.

First, when the present sequence is started in step S300, it is determined in step S301 whether or not a moving image shooting mode is set. If it is determined that the current mode is the moving image shooting mode, the process advances to step S302 to determine whether the image quality mode in the previous still image shooting mode is the high image quality mode. If the image quality mode cannot be determined at this point because the user has not entered the still image shooting mode at that time, the mode is determined to be the low image quality mode.

If it is determined in step S302 that the image quality mode in the still image shooting mode is the high image quality mode, the flow advances to step S303 to detect the remaining capacity of the recording medium 108. Next, in step S304, the remaining amount of the recording capacity detected in step S303 is divided by a predetermined data amount per frame in the still image high quality mode, and the remaining number of recordable images is calculated. Next, the process proceeds to step S305, and the remaining number of recordable images calculated in step S304 is displayed on the liquid crystal display 112, and then the process returns to step S301.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step S302 that the image quality mode in the still image photographing mode is not the high image quality mode, the process proceeds to step S306, and the recording medium 1
The remaining capacity of the recording capacity 08 is detected. Next, the process proceeds to step S307, in which the remaining amount of the recording capacity detected in step S306 is divided by a predetermined data amount per image in the still image low image quality mode, and the remaining number of recordable images is calculated. Next, the process proceeds to step S305, and the remaining number of recordable images calculated in step S307 is displayed on the liquid crystal display 112, and then the process returns to step S301.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step S301 that the current mode is not the moving image shooting mode, the process proceeds to step S30.
Proceeding to 8, it is determined whether or not the image quality mode in the previous moving image shooting mode is the high image quality mode. If the image quality mode cannot be determined at this point in time since the moving image capturing mode has not been entered, the mode is determined to be the low image quality mode.

If it is determined in step S308 that the image quality mode in the moving image shooting mode is the high image quality mode, the flow advances to step S309 to proceed to step S309.
The remaining capacity of the recording capacity 08 is detected. Next, the process proceeds to step S310, in which the remaining amount of the recording capacity detected in step S309 is divided by a predetermined data amount per second in the high-quality moving image mode, and the remaining photographable time is calculated. Next, the process proceeds to step S311, and the remaining photographable time calculated in step S310 is displayed on the liquid crystal display 112, and then the process proceeds to step S311.
Return to 301.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step S308 that the image quality mode in the moving image shooting mode is not the high image quality mode, the flow advances to step S312 to proceed to step S312.
8, the remaining capacity of the recording capacity is detected. Next, the process proceeds to step S313, where the remaining amount of the recording capacity detected in step S312 is divided by the predetermined data amount per second in the moving image low image quality mode, and the remaining photographable time is calculated. Next, the process proceeds to step S311 to display the remaining photographable time calculated in step S313 on the liquid crystal display 112, and then returns to step S301.

FIG. 4 shows a liquid crystal display 1 at the time of shooting a moving image.
It is a figure which shows the example of a display of 08. 4, reference numeral 401 denotes a moving image shooting mode display, 402 denotes a FINE (high image quality) recording display, and 403 denotes a remaining number of shootable images. Here, “30F” indicates that when the moving image shooting is stopped and the mode is switched to the still image shooting mode and shooting is performed, 30 still images in the FINE (high image quality) mode can be recorded.

In addition to the above-described example in which the remaining number of still images that can be shot in the moving image shooting mode is displayed, as shown in FIG. 5, the remaining shooting time of the moving image is displayed in the still image shooting mode. You may. In FIG.
Reference numeral 501 denotes a still image shooting mode display, 502 denotes a FINE (high image quality) recording display, and 503 denotes a remaining shooting available time display. Here, “15s” is the remaining recordable time of the moving image is 1
5 seconds.

Further, as shown in FIG. 6, the remaining photographable time of a moving image and the remaining number of recordable still images may be simultaneously displayed on the liquid crystal display 112 in the moving image photographing mode. 6, reference numeral 601 denotes a moving image shooting mode display, 602 denotes a NORMAL (low image quality) recording display,
Reference numeral 603 denotes a display of the number of remaining shootable still images, and 604 denotes a display of the remaining shootable time of the moving image. Here, “30F” means that the remaining number of recordable still images is 30 and “3F”
"0s" indicates that the remaining photographable time of the moving image is 30 seconds.

Further, in the still image photographing mode, the remaining photographable time of the moving image and the remaining photographable number of still images may be simultaneously displayed on the liquid crystal display 112. In this case, the moving image shooting mode display 60 in FIG.
1 is changed to the still image shooting mode display.

In the present embodiment, the functions of the present embodiment are realized by the computer reading and executing the program code of the control program stored in the storage medium. However, when the computer executes the readout program code, not only the functions of the above-described embodiment are realized, but also an OS (Operating System) or the like running on the computer based on the instruction of the program code. This includes a case where some or all of the actual processing is performed and the functions of the present embodiment are realized by the processing.

As a storage medium for supplying the program code, for example, a floppy disk, hard disk, optical disk, magneto-optical disk, CD-ROM (Co-ROM)
mpact Disk Read Only Memo
ry), CD-R (Compact Disk Rec)
order, a magnetic tape, a nonvolatile memory card, a ROM chip, or the like.

[0060]

As described above in detail, according to the imaging method and apparatus of the present invention, the remaining number of still images that can be shot is displayed during the shooting of a moving image. This has the effect that a recording medium having a limited recording capacity can be used effectively.

Further, according to the imaging method and apparatus of the present invention, the remaining photographable time of a moving image is displayed during the photographing of a still image. There is an effect that the recording medium can be used effectively.

Further, according to the storage medium of the present invention, there is an effect that the above-described imaging device can be smoothly controlled.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of an imaging device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a JPEG processing circuit in the imaging device according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of an operation of the imaging apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a display example of a liquid crystal display when a moving image is captured by the imaging device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a display example of a liquid crystal display when a still image is captured by an imaging device according to another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a display example of a liquid crystal display at the time of moving image shooting of an imaging device according to still another embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 101 shooting lens 102 lens drive motor 103 aperture 104 image sensor 105 CDS / AGC circuit 106 digital signal processing circuit 107 JPEG processing circuit 108 recording medium 109 NTSC encoder 110 signal output terminal 111 liquid crystal driver 112 liquid crystal display 113 system controller 114 camera controller 115 shutter Button 116 Character generator 201 Pixel number conversion / raster-block conversion unit 202 DCT conversion unit 203 Quantization unit 204 Huffman coding unit 205 Scaling factor 206 Quantization table 207 Huffman table 208 CPU (central processing unit) 401 Movie shooting mode display , 402 FINE (high image quality) mode display 403 Remaining recordable number display 501 Still image shooting mode display 50 FINE (high image quality) mode display 503 remaining recordable time display 601 video recording mode display 602 NORMAL (low image quality) mode display 603 still picture remaining photographable number display 604 remaining recordable time display of video

Claims (28)

[Claims] 1. An image pickup method for picking up an image by an image pickup apparatus having at least a moving image shooting mode for shooting a moving image and a still image shooting mode for shooting a still image, wherein the recording medium detects a remaining amount of a recording capacity of the recording medium. A remaining amount detecting step, a moving image remaining amount calculating step of calculating a remaining shooting time of a moving image from the remaining amount of the recording capacity of the recording medium detected by the recording medium remaining amount detecting step, and the recording medium remaining amount detecting step. A still image remaining amount calculating step of calculating the remaining recordable number of still images from the detected remaining amount of recording capacity of the recording medium; a displaying step of displaying the image to be shot and the calculation result of the calculating step; A control step of controlling the calculation result of the still image remaining amount calculation step to be displayed by the display step during shooting in the moving image shooting mode. 2. The still image remaining amount calculating step, comprising: a still image compressing step of compressing the data of the still image; and a compression ratio selecting step of selecting a data compression size in the still image compressing step. 2. The imaging method according to claim 1, wherein the calculating unit calculates the number of still images that can be shot using a compression ratio selected in the compression ratio selection step immediately before entering the moving image shooting mode. 3. The imaging method according to claim 1, wherein the recording medium is a flash memory. 4. The imaging method according to claim 1, wherein the recording medium is a magnetic disk. 5. The imaging method according to claim 1, wherein the imaging device is a digital still camera. 6. The imaging method according to claim 1, wherein the imaging device is a digital video camera. 7. An image pickup apparatus having at least a moving image photographing mode for photographing a moving image and a still image photographing mode for photographing a still image, comprising: a recording medium remaining amount detecting means for detecting a remaining amount of recording capacity of a recording medium; Moving image remaining amount calculating means for calculating a remaining shooting time of a moving image from the remaining amount of recording capacity of the recording medium detected by the recording medium remaining amount detecting means, and a recording medium detected by the recording medium remaining amount detecting means Still image remaining amount calculating means for calculating the remaining number of recordable still images from the remaining recording capacity of the still image, a display step of displaying the image to be shot and the calculation result of the calculating means, and shooting in the moving image shooting mode Control means for controlling the calculation result of the still image remaining amount calculation means to be displayed on the display means during the operation. 8. A still picture remaining amount calculating means, comprising: a still picture compressing means for compressing the data of the still picture; and a compression ratio selecting means for selecting a size of data compression by the still picture compressing means. 8. The imaging apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the calculating unit calculates the number of still images that can be shot using the compression ratio selected by the compression ratio selection unit immediately before entering the moving image shooting mode. 9. The imaging device according to claim 7, wherein the recording medium is a flash memory. 10. The imaging device according to claim 7, wherein the recording medium is a magnetic disk. 11. The imaging device according to claim 7, wherein the imaging device is a digital still camera. 12. The imaging device according to claim 7, wherein the imaging device is a digital video camera. 13. An image capturing method for capturing an image by an image capturing apparatus having at least a moving image capturing mode for capturing a moving image and a still image capturing mode for capturing a still image, wherein the recording medium detects remaining capacity of the recording medium. A remaining amount detecting step, a moving image remaining amount calculating step of calculating a remaining shooting time of a moving image from the remaining amount of the recording capacity of the recording medium detected by the recording medium remaining amount detecting step, and the recording medium remaining amount detecting step. A still image remaining amount calculating step of calculating the remaining recordable number of still images from the detected remaining amount of recording capacity of the recording medium; a displaying step of displaying the image to be shot and the calculation result of the calculating step; A control step of controlling the calculation result of the moving image remaining amount calculation step to be displayed by the display step during shooting in the still image shooting mode. 14. A moving image compression step of compressing the moving image data, and a compression ratio selecting step of selecting a size of data compression by the moving image compression step, wherein the moving image remaining amount calculating step includes: 14. The imaging method according to claim 13, wherein the number of shootable still images is calculated using the compression ratio selected in the compression ratio selection step immediately before entering the image shooting mode. 15. The imaging method according to claim 13, wherein the recording medium is a flash memory. 16. The imaging method according to claim 13, wherein the recording medium is a magnetic disk. 17. The digital still camera according to claim 13, wherein the imaging device is a digital still camera.
The imaging method described in the above. 18. The digital camera according to claim 13, wherein the image pickup device is a digital video camera.
The imaging method described in the above. 19. An imaging apparatus having at least a moving image shooting mode for shooting a moving image and a still image shooting mode for shooting a still image, comprising: a recording medium remaining amount detecting means for detecting a remaining amount of the recording capacity of the recording medium; Moving image remaining amount calculating means for calculating a remaining shooting time of a moving image from the remaining amount of recording capacity of the recording medium detected by the recording medium remaining amount detecting means, and a recording medium detected by the recording medium remaining amount detecting means A still image remaining amount calculating means for calculating the remaining number of recordable still images from the remaining recording capacity of the still image; a display means for displaying the image to be shot and the calculation result of the calculating means; A control unit for controlling the display unit to display a calculation result of the moving image remaining amount calculation unit during shooting. 20. A moving picture compressing means for compressing the moving picture data, and a compression ratio selecting means for selecting a size of data compression by the moving picture compressing means. 20. The imaging apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the number of still images that can be shot is calculated using the compression ratio selected by the compression ratio selection unit immediately before entering the image shooting mode. 21. The imaging device according to claim 19, wherein the recording medium is a flash memory. 22. The imaging apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the recording medium is a magnetic disk. 23. The imaging device according to claim 19, wherein the imaging device is a digital still camera.
An imaging device according to any one of the preceding claims. 24. The apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the imaging device is a digital video camera.
An imaging device according to any one of the preceding claims. 25. A storage medium storing a control program for controlling an image pickup apparatus having at least a moving image shooting mode for shooting a moving image and a still image shooting mode for shooting a still image, wherein the control program is a recording medium. The remaining recording capacity of the medium is detected, and the remaining recordable time of the moving image is calculated from the detected remaining recording capacity of the recording medium. A control module for calculating a remaining number of shootable images, displaying the image to be shot and the calculation result, and controlling to display the calculation result of the remaining amount of the still image while shooting in the moving image shooting mode. A storage medium characterized by having: 26. The control program compresses data of the still image, selects a size of the compression, and captures the still image using a compression rate selected immediately before entering the moving image capturing mode. 26. The storage medium according to claim 25, further comprising a control module for performing a control to calculate a possible number of sheets. 27. A storage medium storing a control program for controlling an imaging device having at least a moving image shooting mode for shooting a moving image and a still image shooting mode for shooting a still image, wherein the storage capacity of the storage medium is reduced. The remaining amount is detected, the remaining recordable time of the moving image is calculated from the detected remaining amount of the recording medium, and the remaining recordable number of still images is calculated from the detected remaining amount of the recording medium. A control module for calculating and displaying the image to be shot and the calculation result, and controlling to display the calculation result of the remaining moving image while shooting in the still image shooting mode. Storage medium. 28. The control program compresses moving image data, selects a size of the compression, and shoots the still image by using a selected compression ratio immediately before entering the still image shooting mode. 28. The apparatus according to claim 27, further comprising a control module for controlling the number of sheets to be calculated.
The storage medium according to the above.