Patent ID: 8872934
Filing Date: 2014-10-28
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image capturing device comprising: an image capturing unit that captures an image of a subject and outputs the captured image frame by frame; a monitoring unit that monitors an amount of change between different frames of the captured images consecutively outputted by the image capturing unit; a threshold value setting unit that sets a threshold value according to the amount of change between the different frames of the captured images monitored by the monitoring unit; a determining unit that determines whether or not the amount of change for a captured image monitored by the monitoring unit exceeds the threshold value set by the threshold value setting unit; and a recording control unit that performs automatic control such that (i) the captured image is recorded to a recording unit when the determining unit determines that the amount of change for the captured image exceeds the threshold value set by the threshold value setting unit, and (ii) the captured image is not recorded to the recording unit when the determining unit determines that the amount of change for the captured image does not exceed the threshold value.