Patent ID: 8023012

Claim:
An image capture device comprising: an image capture unit including a solid-state image capture component, which is equipped with a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements for photoelectrically converting light in accordance with a subject, the image capture unit providing image data of a photographic image of the subject via the solid-state image capture component; a first memory unit, which memorizes position information of each of non-contiguous defective pixels at the solid-state image capture component; a second memory unit, which has a higher access rate when being accessed than the first memory unit has when being accessed, and which memorizes position information of each of contiguous defective pixels at the solid-state image capture component; a mode setting unit, at which mode information representing a photography mode is set; and a correction unit which corrects the image data, the correction unit selectively determining, based on the photography mode, whether to access the first memory unit and to correct the non-contiguous defective pixels, or to not access the first memory unit and to not correct the non-contiguous defective pixels, wherein, when the mode information set at the mode setting unit represents one of a continuous photography mode for providing image data of a series of photographic images or a video photography mode for providing image data of a moving image, the correction unit corrects, of the image data provided by the image capture unit, image data that corresponds to contiguous defective pixels according to the position information memorized at the second memory unit, and the correction unit does not correct image data that corresponds to non-contiguous defective pixels, and when the mode information set at the mode setting unit represents a still photography mode for providing image data of a still image, the correction unit corrects, of the image data provided by the image capture unit, image data that corresponds to contiguous and non-contiguous defective pixels according to the position information memorized at the second memory unit and the position information memorized at the first memory unit.