Patent ID: 8102434

Claim:
An imaging apparatus that captures and records a moving image and a static image at the same time, comprising: capturing means for capturing an optical image of a subject in a decimation mode and outputting to a subsequent stage a first pixel signal while recording of the moving image is performed but recording of the static image is not performed, and for capturing the optical image of the subject in a non-decimation mode and outputting to the subsequent stage a second pixel signal while recording of both the moving image and the static image is performed; splitting means for splitting the second pixel signal output from the capturing means into a first split pixel signal and a second split pixel signal, the first split pixel signal and the second split pixel signal each being an identical copy of the second pixel signal; eliminating means for performing decimation on the first split pixel signal output from the splitting means only while both recording of the moving image and the static image are performed; moving image data generating means for generating moving image data based on the first pixel signal output by the capturing means while only recording of the moving image is performed and based on the first split pixel signal output by the eliminating means while both recording of the moving image and the static image are performed; static image data generating means for generating static image data based on the second split pixel signal output from the splitting means; and recording means for recording the generated moving image data and the generated static image data.