Patent ID: 8908916

Claim:
A control apparatus comprising: circuitry configured to: perform control so that automatic image-recording for automatically recording, on recording means, image data which has been obtained based on imaging by using an imaging unit, is continuously and repeatedly performed; change and set a recording frequency, which is a frequency of the automatic image-recording performed by the image-recording control means; change and set one or more parameters related to the automatic image-recording based on the set recording frequency; detect a subject which is present in an image based on the image data; decide a composition in accordance with the detected subject; make a determination regarding whether or not the decided composition has continuously been obtained in the image based on the image data for a prescribed time, perform the automatic image-recording as a result of a determination that the decided composition has continuously been obtained for the prescribed time; and change, as a parameter, the prescribed time to be used for the determination.