Patent ID: 8049792

Claim:
An image capture apparatus comprising: an image capture unit that captures an image; a storing unit that stores the captured image in a recording medium attached to the image capture apparatus; a detecting unit that detects whether or not the recording medium attached to the image capture apparatus is removed from the image capture apparatus when a power switch of the image capture apparatus is off; and a control unit that (a) accesses a predetermined area in the recording medium to obtain the number of free clusters if the detecting unit does not detect that the recording medium attached to the image capture apparatus is removed from the image capture apparatus when the power switch of the image capture apparatus is off, (b) calculates a free space in the recording medium from the obtained number of free clusters, (c) calculates a number of free clusters in the recording medium if the detecting unit detects that the recording medium attached to the image capture apparatus is removed from the image capture apparatus when the power switch of the image capture apparatus is off, and (d) calculates a free space in the recording medium from the calculated number of free clusters.