Patent ID: 8417094

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: an operation unit; an image pickup unit configured to output a motion image signal and a still image signal, the image pickup unit outputting the still image signal in accordance with a still image recording instruction provided by the operation unit; a recording and reproducing unit configured to record on a recording medium the motion image signal output from the image pickup unit, the still image signal output from the image pickup unit and management information indicating recording addresses of the motion image signal and the still image signal recorded on the recording medium and reproduce the management information from the recording medium; a memory configured to store the management information reproduced by the recording and reproducing unit; and a control unit configured to control the recording and reproducing unit such that the recording and reproducing unit starts to record the motion image signal in accordance with a motion image recording instruction provided by the operation unit and records the still image signal in accordance with the still image recording instruction, wherein the control unit updates the management information stored in the memory in accordance with recording of the motion image signal and recording of the still image signal, and wherein the control unit, responsive to the still image recording instruction provided during the recording of the motion image signal, updates the management information stored in the memory so as to indicate the recording address of the motion image signal being recorded at a point of time when the still image recording instruction is provided, and the recording address of the still image signal recorded in accordance with the still image recording instruction, and controls the recording and reproducing unit so as to record the updated management information on the recording medium.