Patent ID: 8164653

Claim:
An image-processing device comprising: an image-pickup unit configured to generate image data by shooting an object in accordance with a shooting instruction; an interface to which a recording medium configured to record an image file and file-management information is connected, the file-management information including an image file name, a recorded position and a record size of the image file; an internal memory configured to store the image data generated by the image-pickup unit and the file-management information read from the recording medium; and a control unit configured, when consecutive-photographing of a plurality of still images is instructed, to generate an image file from the image data stored in the internal memory, to record the generated image file in the recording medium, and to update the file-management information stored in the internal memory based on the generated image file, each time a still image is photographed, and to update the file-management information stored in the recording medium, using the updated file-management information, after the consecutive-photographing of a plurality of still images is finished, wherein during the consecutive-photographing of a plurality of still images, the control unit updates the file-management information recorded in the recording medium, using the updated file-management information stored in the internal memory, when a predetermined condition is satisfied, and the control unit does not update the file-management information recorded in the recording medium when the predetermine condition is not satisfied, and wherein the predetermined condition is that a predetermined number of still images are photographed by performing the consecutive-photographing of a plurality of still images.