Patent ID: 7432957

Claim:
An image pickup device comprising: an imaging section that executes a moving picture pickup processing and a still picture pickup processing; a voice recording section that executes a voice recording processing in parallel with the moving picture pickup processing; a moving picture with voice pickup controlling section that executes a processing for picking up a moving picture with a voice during a period between a time when an instruction is given to start picking up a moving picture with a voice and a time when an instruction is given to terminate picking up a moving picture pickup with a voice, wherein the processing for picking up a moving picture with a voice includes the moving picture pickup processing to be executed by the imaging section and the voice recording processing to be executed by the voice recording section; an interrupt processing section that sequentially executes a processing to suspend the moving picture pickup processing by the imaging section, a processing to pickup a still picture by the imaging section, and a processing to resume the moving picture pickup processing by the imaging section, when an instruction is given to execute a still picture pickup while the processing for picking up a moving picture with a voice is being executed; and a voice recording controlling section that terminates the voice recording processing executed by the voice recording section at the time of termination of the moving picture pickup processing by the imaging section, when the moving picture pickup processing by the imaging section is terminated in response to an instruction that is given to terminate the processing for picking up a moving picture with a voice while the processing for picking up a moving picture with a voice is being executed, and that keeps the voice recording section keep executing the voice recording processing, when the moving picture pickup processing by the imaging section is suspended in response to an instruction that is given by the interrupt processing section to execute a still picture pickup.