Patent ID: 6970191

Claim:
A video camera apparatus comprising: a solid-state image sensor for outputting an image sensing signal in an interlace scan mode or a progressive scan mode; wherein an image sensing charge in each pixel of the solid-state image sensor is output as one frame signal in one frame period in the progressive scan mode and the image sensing charges from adjacent vertical pixels of the solid-state image sensor are added in the solid-state image sensor and output as one field signal in one field period in the interlace scan mode; image sensing signal processing means supplied with the image sensing signal from the solid-state image sensor; removable memory means for storing the image sensing signal read out from the solid-state image sensor in the progressive scan mode; scan converter means supplied with the image sensing signal from the image sensing signal processing means, for converting the image sensing signal in the progressive scan mode, into an interlace scan signal; control means for performing control of switching an input to recording means, in correspondence with an operation mode of the solid-state image sensor; and the recording means for recording the image sensing signal read out from the solid-state image sensor in the interlace scan mode or the progressive scan mode, directly onto a recording medium, and for converting the image sensing signal read out from the solid-state image sensor or the removable memory means in the progressive scan mode, into an interlace scan signal, by the scan converter means, and then recording the interlace scan signal onto the recording medium.