Patent Document ID: 20090322896
Application ID: 12487180
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An image recording apparatus comprising: an imaging unit for obtaining captured image data through capturing; image configuration determining means for determining an appropriate image configuration on the basis of image content of the captured image data; image configuration acquisition control means for executing image configuration acquisition control to obtain captured image data of image content having the appropriate image configuration determined by the image configuration determining means; capturing/recording means for recording the captured image data on a storage medium at timing when the captured image data of the image content having the appropriate image configuration is obtained through execution of the image configuration acquisition control; capturing history information holding means for holding capturing history information that is information about image configurations of respective pieces of captured image data recorded by the capturing/recording means; image configuration exhaustion determining means for determining whether the captured image data of the image content having the appropriate image configuration same as the appropriate image configuration determined by the image configuration determining means has been recorded a predetermined number of times by referring to the capturing history information; and recording setting means for preventing recording by the capturing/recording means of captured image data of image content having the appropriate image configuration that is determined to have been recorded the predetermined number of times by the image configuration exhaustion determining means.