Patent ID: 7705904

Claim:
A moving-image recording device comprising: an imaging unit which cyclically captures an image of an object at a moving picture frame rate; an image creation unit which creates a series of frame images forming a moving picture based on images captured by the imaging unit; a temporary memory which temporarily stores the series of frame images forming the moving picture of a predetermined period of time, wherein when a new frame image is created by the image creation unit, an oldest frame image is deleted and the new frame image is stored; a moving picture display unit which displays the series of frame images forming the moving picture on a display screen while updating the series of frame images at the moving picture frame rate; a selective reading unit which reads first frame images among the series of frame images temporarily stored in the temporary memory when a predetermined display timing arrives, the read first frame images having a time interval therebetween which is obtained by equally dividing the predetermined period of time; a display controller which displays the first frame images which are read by the selective reading unit one by one, on the display screen of the moving picture display unit together with the series of the frame images with an arrangement of keeping a chronological order while updating the displayed first frame images; a determining unit which determines whether or not a recording instruction of a moving image is issued; and a recording unit which records the moving picture when the determining unit determines that the recording instruction of the moving image is issued, the moving picture being formed of frame images which are stored in the temporary memory and stored before a time when the determining unit determines that the recording instruction of the moving image is issued.