Patent ID: 8081864

Claim:
A picked-up image recording apparatus comprising: image processing means for picking up an image of an object to output an image signal of variable frame rate; audio processing means for acquiring an audio signal to generate an audio signal having the number of frames caused to be in conformity with the system frame rate to output the audio signal thus obtained; recording means for recording, onto or into a recording medium, the image signal which has been acquired by the image processing means and the audio signal which has been acquired by the audio processing means; and control means for controlling operations of these respective means; thus to record, in recording a recording signal of recording frame rate from the image signal of the variable frame rate and the audio signal having the number of frames caused to be in conformity with the system frame rate to record the recording signal of the recording frame onto or into the recording medium, the image pick-up frame rate and the system frame rate along with the image signal of the variable frame rate and the audio signal having the number of frames caused to be in conformity with the system frame rate onto or into the recording medium as file.