Patent ID: 7142237

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging unit which generates, by capturing an image of a subject, an image signal corresponding to an image having an arbitrary number of H pixels by W pixels which is not greater than a predetermined number of P pixels by Q pixels in vertical and horizontal directions; an enlarging unit which generates an enlarged image signal corresponding to an enlarged image having the number of P pixels by Q pixels by performing enlargement processing on the image signal having the number of H pixels by W pixels generated by said imaging means; a reducing unit which generates a reduced image signal corresponding to a reduced image having a predetermined number of M pixels by N pixels which is not greater than the predetermined number of P pixels by Q pixels in vertical and horizontal directions by performing reduction processing on the enlarged image signal corresponding to the enlarged image having the number of pixels by Q pixels; and a recording unit for recording the image signal outputted by said reducing means on a recording medium, wherein the enlarged image signal is inhibited from the being recorded on the recording medium.