Patent ID: 7476796

Claim:
An image controlling apparatus, comprising: a plurality of pad type operating devices; a plurality of image storage devices, each of which stores arbitrary image data corresponding to each one of the pad type operating devices; an operation detector that detects an operation of one of the plurality of pad type operating devices; a reading device that reads image data from one of the plurality of image storage devices corresponding to the pad type operating device of which operation is detected; an image generator that generates an image signal by processing the read image data; a video inputting device that inputs a video signal; a recording instruction device that instructs starting and ending of recording the video signal input by the video inputting device; a selector that selects one of the plurality of image storage devices; and a recorder that records image data based on the video signal from starting of recording is instructed to the ending the recording is instructed by the recording instruction device into said one of the plurality of image storage devices selected by the selector.