Patent ID: 7978225

Claim:
An image recording apparatus comprising: moving image capturing means for capturing a moving image and generating moving image data including a plurality of frames; still image capturing means for capturing a still image and generating still image data, said still image data captured between respective capture of two of said plurality of frames, said still image data not included in said plurality of frames; still image information generation means for generating still image information in which the moving image data and the still image data are associated with each other by an image-capturing time; recording means for recording the moving image data, the still image data, and the still image information on a recording medium; display control means for displaying image data, the display control means replacing at least one frame of the moving image data with the still image data during playback of the moving image data such that the at least one frame of the moving image data is not displayed during the playback of the moving image data; and display time setting means for setting a period of time during which the still image data is displayed instead of said moving image data during the playback of the moving image data, wherein selection means selects the still image data for the period of time corresponding to the period of time set by the display time setting means, said still image data replacing said moving image data during the period of time.