Patent ID: 7869692
Filing Date: 2011-01-11
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging unit configured to generate a moving image signal; a recording and reproduction unit configured to record the moving image signal generated by the imaging unit during a period from an instruction to start photographing to an instruction to stop photographing as one cut on a recording medium, and to reproduce the moving image signal from the recording medium; a mode setting unit configured to set one of a reproduction mode for reproducing the moving image signal recorded on the recording medium and a recording mode for recording the moving image signal on the recording medium; a designating unit configured to designate one of a plurality of cuts recorded on the recording medium as a reproduction start cut, the designating unit, in response to the recording and reproduction unit recording the cut first in the recording mode, automatically designating a cut which is different from a cut recorded on the recording medium before the first cut is recorded and is recorded first in the recording mode among a plurality of cuts recorded on the recording medium as the reproduction start cut; a selecting unit configured to select the cut designated as the reproduction start cut by the designating unit among the plurality of cuts recorded on the recording medium responsive to a change from the recording mode to the reproduction mode by the mode setting unit;