Patent ID: 7692690
Filing Date: 2010-04-06
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image sensing apparatus which comprises an image sensing unit and records image data sensed by the image sensing unit in a recording medium, comprising: an image sensing operation controller that controls a moving image sensing operation for recording a moving image obtained by continuously sensing an image by the image sensing unit as a moving image data file in the recording medium, and a still image sensing operation for recording a still image sensed by the image sensing unit as a still image data file in the recording medium; a generation unit that, in a case where a still image sensing instruction is input during the moving image sensing operation, divides a time period for performing one still image sensing operation into a first period and a second period that follows the first period, and inserts a substitute image as a frame in the first and second periods into the moving image data file being generated in the moving image sensing operation by: inserting into the moving image data file in the first period, a predetermined substitute image which had been stored in a predetermined memory and is an image unrelated to an image currently sensed by the image sensing unit, and inserting into the moving image data file in the second period an image corresponding to a still image sensed in response to the still image sensing instruction; and a recording unit that records, in the recording medium, the moving image data file into which is inserted the substitute image by said generation unit and a still image file generated in response to the inputting of the still image sensing instruction, wherein the image sensing apparatus further comprises an audio input unit, wherein the moving image sensing operation includes an operation for recording a moving image in the recording medium together with audio information obtained by said audio input unit, wherein said generation unit inserts pseudo shutter sound information in the first period, and wherein said generation unit inserts audio information input by said audio input unit in the second period.