Patent ID: 11968442
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 10:
11. An imaging apparatus that records an image file on a recording medium, the imaging apparatus comprising:
an imager that captures a subject image to generate image data;
a controller that records an image file based on the image data on the recording medium; and
an operation interface that inputs a user operation for selecting a file system from first and second file systems different from each other, the file system managing the image file in the recording medium, wherein
in accordance with the user operation input in the operation interface, the controller switches a folder for storing the image file between a first folder corresponding to the first file system and a second folder corresponding to the second file system in the recording medium, wherein
when detecting, in the recording medium, an image file present in an unselected folder among the first and second folders, the unselected folder not corresponding to the file system selected by the user operation,
the controller initializes the recording medium by formatting the recording medium in accordance with the file system selected by the user operation.