Patent ID: 8743227

Claim:
An imaging apparatus configured to record image data captured by an imaging unit on a recording medium, the imaging apparatus comprising: a moving image capturing control unit configured to control a moving image capturing operation for recording on the recording medium a moving image obtained by a continuous image capturing operation by the imaging unit; and a still image capturing control unit configured to control a still image capturing operation for recording on the recording medium a still image obtained by an image capturing operation by the imaging unit as a still image file, wherein, in response to an input instruction to start the still image capturing operation when the moving image capturing operation is being performed, the still image capturing control unit controls the still image capturing operation to record the still image file on the recording medium, and the moving image capturing control unit interrupts the moving image capturing operation, generates a moving image in which a skipped macroblock image is inserted as at least one of images to be substituted for a moving image corresponding to a time period for which the moving image capturing operation is interrupted by starting the still image capturing operation, and records the generated moving image on the recording medium, wherein the moving image capturing control unit inserts, into the moving image, a blackout image and the interframe-compressed image whose difference information is zero during a first time period including a time period for which the still image capturing operation is performed, and inserts, into the moving image, a stop motion image equivalent to the still image obtained by the still image capturing operation and the interframe-compressed image whose difference information is zero during a second time period following the first time period in the time period for which the still image capturing operation is performed, wherein the first time period is ended at last frame of current group of pictures (GOP) and the second period is started at first frame of next GOP, and wherein the stop motion image is used as an intra-coded frame (I frame) at the first frame of next GOP.