Patent ID: 8639027

Claim:
An image-capturing device, comprising: an image development process part for converting an image signal imported from an image sensor to brightness and color difference component image data; a sampling part for sampling by thinning out pixels of said color difference component image data in at least one direction of vertical or horizontal according to a first defined sampling format; a determination part for determining whether it is necessary to perform a color noise removal process; a sampling rate switching part for switching the sampling rate of said sampling such that, when the determination part determines that it is necessary to perform the color noise removal process, the color difference component image data is produced in a small data volume corresponding to a compressed image data smaller than an image size which is in a case of not performing said color noise removal process, by thinning out the pixels of said color difference component image data before the sampling according to a second defined sampling format; and a recording part for recording said brightness and color difference component image data.