Patent ID: 8531552

Claim:
An image processing apparatus, comprising: control part which controls a first recording part and a second recording part to record image data based on an image picking up of an image pickup part; and switching part which switches a destination to record; wherein the control part controls the second recording part to record in the second recording part second image data with a different identifier from first image data recorded in the first recording part, when the switching part switches the destination from the first recording part to the second recording part during the control part controlling the first recording part to record the first image data, wherein the second image data is in temporal continuity with the first image data, and wherein the control part controls the second recording part to record in the second recording part consolidated image data obtained by consolidating the first image data recorded in the second recording part, the first image data being transferred to the second recording part concurrently with the recording of the second image data in the second recording part, and the second image data.