Patent ID: 8120675

Claim:
A moving image recording device that records a moving image of a subject, the moving image recording device comprising: an imaging unit that sequentially outputs a plurality of image frames that constitute the moving image, at a predetermined frame rate; a storage unit that stores therein specific part template information used for detecting a specific part of the subject; a calculating unit, for each of partial image frames, that detects the specific part of the subject with use of the specific part template information stored in the storage unit, and calculates specific part position information used for specifying a position of the detected specific part, the partial image frames being image frames included in the plurality of image frames output from the imagining unit other than image frames at intervals of a predetermined number of frames; a clipping unit that clips out, of each partial image frame, a partial area including the specific part of the subject with use of the specific part position information calculated by the calculating unit; and a recording unit, for the plurality of image frames output from the imaging unit, that records whole image frames at intervals of a predetermined number of frames, and the partial image frames with the clipped partial area between the whole image frames, onto a recording medium.