Patent ID: 8786721

Claim:
An image capturing device comprising: an image capturing unit that captures an image of a subject and outputs the captured image; a monitoring unit that monitors a state of the captured images consecutively outputted by the image capturing unit; a first determining unit that determines whether or not the state of the captured image monitored by the monitoring unit satisfies an image recording condition; a recording control unit that performs automatic control such that (i) the captured image is recorded to a recording unit when the first determining unit determines that the image recording condition is satisfied, and (ii) the captured image is not recorded to the recording unit when the first determining unit determines that the image recording condition is not satisfied; a second determining unit that determines whether or not a state of the captured image monitored by the monitoring unit is a state in which a determination can be carried out appropriately by the first determining unit; and a warning unit that provides a warning indication when it is determined by the second determining unit that a state exists in which the determination by the first determining unit cannot be carried out appropriately; wherein the monitoring unit comprises a determination data calculating unit that calculates determination data from the captured images outputted by the image capturing unit to be used to perform the determination by the first determining unit and a determination by the second determining unit, and wherein the determination data calculating unit calculates the determination data used by the first determining unit and the determination data used by the second determining unit in the same manner.