Patent ID: 7479988

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: an image sensor for capturing and outputting an image sensing signal; said image sensing signal including still images and video images; image sensing signal processing means for receiving said image sensing signal outputted from said image sensor, wherein said image sensing signal is output sequentially through a process of conversions between vertical and horizontal registers per frame period; a first recording medium on which images captured by the image sensor are recorded; a second recording medium which is removable from the imaging apparatus; a first signal processing means which processes said image sensing signal and generates a first format image signal; a second signal processing means which encodes said image sensing signal and generates a second format image signal; wherein, both still images and video images processed by said first signal processing means are stored to the first recording medium; wherein, still images processed by said first signal processing means are stored on said first recording medium in a video format for a predetermined time period, and still images encoded by said second signal processing means are stored on said second recording medium in a still image format.