Patent ID: 7573504

Claim:
An image recording apparatus comprising: a shooting component which shoots an image of a subject; a first storing component which stores shot frame image data; a moving image compressing component which generates moving image data by performing a compressing process for a moving image on the frame image data; a moving image data recording component which records the moving image data onto a recording medium; a second storing component which stores the frame image data in a case where still image shooting is directed during the moving image shooting; a still image compressing component which generates still image data by performing a compressing process for a still image on the frame image data stored in the second storing component; a control component which controls the still image compressing component so as to divide the compressing process for the still image into processes for a plurality of predetermined periods and execute the divided compressing processes for the still image, when the compressing process for the still image is not finished within one predetermined period; and a still image data recording component which records the still image data onto a recording medium, wherein the image recording apparatus is characterized by shooting still images during shooting of moving images, wherein a moving image process on a frame image to generate said moving image data is performed in said one predetermined period at a different time from a time when a compressing process for the still image is performed in said one predetermined period.