Digital imaging system

[0091]A digital camera print system according to a first embodiment of the present invention is described with reference to FIGS. 1–7. Each of the components is constituted of hardware or firmware, or both.

[0092]A digital still camera 100, which is a picture-taking unit constituting a digital camera print system according to a first embodiment of the present invention, is described with reference to a block diagram of FIG. 1. The picture-taking unit 100 comprises picture-taking means 101, picture selecting means 102, print control information storage means 103 and a flash memory card 104.

[0093]In the picture-taking means 101 of FIG. 1, an objective lens 1 focuses an optical image of an object on a charge coupled device (hereinafter referred to as CCD) 2. A signal output of the CCD 2 by this optical image is fetched through a switch (shutter button) S1 which is a shutter and input to an A / D converter 3, so that the analog signal is converted to a digital signal. The digital output of

[0123]A picture processing system utilizing the digital camera according to a second embodiment of the present invention is described with reference to FIGS. 8A–8C.

[0124]For this embodiment, a case in which a printer unit 200a carries out double zoom print without any treatment by specifying double zoom processing in a picture-taking unit 100a upon print operation, is described.

[0125]Referring to FIG. 8A, a digital still camera which is a picture-taking unit comprises a picture-taking means 101a, a picture selecting means 102a, a processing control information storage means 103a and a flash memory card 104a. Because the picture-taking unit 100a has the same structure as the picture-taking unit 100 of the first embodiment in FIG. 1, a detailed description is omitted. Like the first embodiment, if a user selects that he wants to print in double enlargement from picture data stored in the picture file 7 by using a picture selecting means 102a of the picture-taking unit 100a, the processin

[0127]A display system utilizing a digital camera according to a third embodiment of the present invention is described with reference to FIGS. 9 and 10.

[0128]Referring to FIG. 9, a digital still camera 100b which is a picture-taking unit comprises a picture-taking means 101b, a display picture selecting means 102b, a display control information storage means 103b and a flash memory card 104b. Because the picture-taking unit 100b is of the same structure as the picture-taking unit 100 of the first exemplary embodiment in FIG. 1, a detailed description is omitted.

[0129]According to this embodiment, like the print system of FIG. 8, in a picture-taking unit 100b of this display system, a display control information storage means 103b produces a file name of a picture selected by a display picture selecting means 102b of the digital camera by user on a flash memory card 104b as a display control information file 8b (FIG. 4B shows an example of the file 8b).

[0130]As shown in FIG. 10, a disp