Patent ID: 7369683

Claim:
An imaging device, comprising: an imaging element driven in a thinning read-out mode for reading out signal charges from a subset of pixels, or in an all-pixels read-out mode for reading out signal charges from all pixels, wherein if moving images are picked up by driving the imaging element in the thinning read-out mode, a series of first image data that is obtained by reading out signal charges repeatedly from the subset of pixels and that constitutes the moving images is processed and recorded, and a portion of the first image data is processed and recorded as a still image when an instruction to pick up the still image is given while picking up the moving images, and wherein if moving images are picked up by driving the imaging element in the all-pixels read-out mode, a series of second image data that is obtained by reading out signal charges repeatedly from all of the pixels and that constitutes the moving images is processed and recorded after the number of pixels of the second image data is thinned, and a portion of the second image data is processed and recorded as a still image without thinning when an instruction to pick up the still image is given while picking up the moving images.