Patent ID: 7412155

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: image-capturing means; recording means for recording, in a recording medium, still-image data obtained by the image-capturing means; instructing means for instructing an image-capturing; mode-switching means for switching a mode of the apparatus between a plurality of modes including a single shooting mode in which the image-capturing means performs an image-capturing of a still image of one picture in accordance with an instruction by the instructing means and the recording means records, in a recording medium, a still-image-data item representing the still image of one picture and a continuous shooting mode in which the image-capturing means performs an image-capturing of a series of still images of plural pictures in accordance with an instruction by the instructing means and the recording means records, in the recording medium, a series of still-image-data items representing the series of the still images of plural pictures; and play-list generating means which, generates a play list for playing back, from among a plurality of still-image-data items recorded in the recording medium, the series of still-image-data items representing the series of the still images of plural pictures recorded in the continuous shooting mode, wherein the play-list generating means generates, in the continuous shooting mode, a new play list for each instruction by the instructing means, wherein the recording means stores the still-image-data item and the play list in a plurality of directories and records the still-image-data item and the play list each stored in the plurality of directories in the recording medium, and wherein the recording means stores the still-image-data item corresponding to the still image captured in the single shooting mode by the image-capturing means and the series of still-image-data items representing the series of the still images of plural pictures captured in the continuous shooting mode by the image-capturing means in a same directory and stores the plurality of play list generated for each of the instructions by the instructing means in another directory.