Patent ID: 8180106

Claim:
An image capturing apparatus comprising: an image capturing unit adapted to capture a moving image of an object and to acquire still image data and moving image data, wherein the still image data is acquired at the same time as a corresponding frame of the moving image data and wherein the still image data has at least one of a high resolution and multi-tone in comparison with the moving image data; a holding control unit adapted to have a first buffer temporarily hold the still image data, and to have a second buffer temporarily hold the moving image data; an analysis unit adapted to analyze a state of the object in a frame of the moving image data corresponding to still image data held in the first buffer; and a recording control unit adapted (a) to control successively recording of the moving image data held in the second buffer on a recording medium, (b) to control recording of the still image data held in the first buffer on the recording medium if an analysis result of a corresponding frame of the moving image data by said analysis unit satisfies a capturing condition, and (c) to control discarding of the still image data held in the first buffer without recording on the recording medium if the analysis result of the corresponding frame of the moving image data does not satisfy the capturing condition.