Patent ID: 7667742

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus comprising: moving image recording means for recording a captured image as moving image data; image pickup position information acquisition means for acquiring, as image pickup position information, position information regarding an image pickup location during recording of the moving image data; preceding image pickup position information storage means for storing, as preceding image pickup position information, the image pickup position information acquired by the image pickup position information acquisition means; change point detecting means for detecting a change point indicating that a position represented by the image pickup position information has changed from a position represented by the preceding image pickup position information, by comparing the image pickup position information with the preceding image pickup position information; and change point position information recording means for recording, as change point position information, the image pickup position information when the change point is detected, wherein the preceding image pickup position storage means stores, as new preceding image pickup position information, the image pickup position information when the change point is detected.