Patent ID: 8063952
Filing Date: 2011-11-22
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image-capturing apparatus comprising: image-capturing means for capturing image data of a subject and for storing the captured image data in an image-capturing operation; speed detection means for detecting speed information; and control means for controlling the image-capturing means so that, in an automatic image-capturing process that is not based on a shutter operation of a user, a distance moved by the image-capturing apparatus is computed on the basis of the speed information from the speed detection means, and the image-capturing operation is performed in response to obtaining a computation result indicating that the distance moved by the image-capturing apparatus corresponds to a predetermined distance, wherein the control means is configured to instruct the image-capturing means to set an image size for the image-capturing operation on the basis of a time period elapsed after the image-capturing means performed a previous image-capturing operation, when the computation result, indicating that the image-capturing apparatus has moved the predetermined distance, is obtained on the basis of the speed detection information from the speed detection means.