Patent ID: 8339478
Filing Date: 2012-12-25
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image capturing apparatus, comprising: an imaging unit; an input unit configured to receive an instruction to start recording and an instruction to stop recording; a recording unit configured to record a moving image signal obtained by said imaging unit on a recording medium, wherein the recording unit starts recording of the moving image signal in response to the instruction to start recording and stops recording of the moving image signal in response to the instruction to stop recording in a first image capturing mode, and starts recording of the moving image signal in response to the instruction to start recording and automatically stops recording of the moving image signal a predetermined period after recording of the moving image signal starts in a second image capturing mode; a reproducing unit configured to reproduce a moving image signal from the recording medium; an instruction unit configured to receive an instruction for designating a start position for extraction during reproduction of the moving image signal by said reproducing unit; and a control unit configured to control said recording unit so as to automatically extract a moving image signal of the predetermined period from the start position for extraction designated by the instruction received by said instruction unit from a moving image signal that has been recorded on the recording medium in the first image capturing mode and is being reproduced, and record the extracted moving image signal on the recording medium, and wherein if a period from the designated extraction start position to an end of the moving image signal that is being reproduced is shorter than the predetermined period, said control unit does not perform extraction of the moving image signal.