Patent ID: 7362352

Claim:
An image capturing apparatus for capturing an image of a subject at an image taking section, the apparatus comprising: a transmission section for transmitting data of a captured image to an operation terminal via a communication line including at least a public line; a judging section for judging a current communication form with said operation terminal; a controller for controlling operation of said image capturing apparatus based on a result of judgment by said judging section; a temporary memory for temporarily storing frame images captured during a predetermined period of time at said image taking section together with image capturing time information representing the time when each frame image is captured; a receiving section for receiving a recording command including said image capturing time information from said operation terminal; and an image memory for storing a frame image designated by said recording command in the state of high resolution, wherein the result of judgment by said judging section includes information regarding communication speed, and said controller, when said judging section judges that the current communication form includes a low-speed communication path, transmitting frame images whose resolutions have been reduced to said operation terminal together with image capturing time information of each frame image, whereas when it receives said recording command from said receiving section, acquiring a frame image corresponding to said image capturing time information contained in said recording command from the frame images stored in said temporary memory and storing the acquired frame image in the state of high resolution in said image memory.