Patent ID: 7667741

Claim:
A device for taking a still picture while recording a moving picture, the device comprising: a user interface unit for generating a user input instruction to record the moving picture, and a user input instruction to take the still picture while recording the moving picture; a moving picture recorder for continuously compressing the still pictures received from a camera, into the moving picture sheet by sheet, and recording the compressed moving picture; a camera picture capturing unit for, when there is the user input instruction to take the still picture while recording the moving picture, capturing the still picture taken by the camera; a camera controller for controlling an operation of the camera, and controlling an operation of the camera picture capturing unit by determining a property of camera picture; a take-while-record setting unit for storing information on picture-taking, a memory for storing the still picture taken while recording the moving picture; and a controller for detecting the user input instruction to take the still picture while recording the moving picture, and generating a signal for controlling the camera controller, the moving picture recorder, and the camera picture capturing unit to take the still picture while recording the moving picture depending on a value previously set in the take-while-record setting units, wherein the controller compares a size of the still picture previously set in the take-while-record setting unit with a size of a picture being recorded, and generates control signals reflecting the comparative result, and when the picture being recorded has a different size as the previously set size of the still picture, the controller generates a control signal for instructing the camera controller to enable the camera to take the still picture based on the value set in the take-while-record setting unit, and generates a control signal for instructing the camera picture capturing unit to capture the still picture and transmit the captured picture to the memory.