CONCURRENT DUAL PIPELINE FOR ACQUISITION, PROCESSING AND TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL VIDEO AND HIGH RESOLUTION DIGITAL STILL PHOTOGRAPHS

A digital video camera system may utilize a concurrent dual video and still image pipeline that simultaneously acquires, processes, transmits and/or stores digital video and high resolution digital still image photographs. The concurrent dual pipeline may include a video pipeline optimized for digital video and a still image pipeline optimized for high resolution digital still images. As a result, high resolution still image photographs may be acquired during video recording without any interference with the video recording or any impact on the quality of the video or the still image photographs.