Patent Document ID: 8248484
Application ID: 12509047
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An imaging apparatus comprising: an information acquiring device configured to acquire photographic information which is information on a photographic scene from an image; a reference information registering device configured to register reference information which is set based on the photographic information; a scene change determining device configured to determine whether or not the scene has changed based on the reference information stored in the reference information registering device and current photographic information acquired from a current image by the information acquiring device; a scene recognizing device configured to perform a scene recognition processing to recognize a scene based the current photographic information acquired from the current image by the information acquiring device when it is determined, by the scene change determining device, that a scene is changed; and a control device configured to perform at least one of display control, photographic control, signal processing control, and information recording control in response to the result of the scene recognition processing by the scene recognizing device, wherein the scene change determining device comprises: a single scene change determining device which successively determines the occurrence/nonoccurrence of scene change based on the reference information stored in the reference information registering device and the current photographic information acquired by the information acquiring device; a scene change history record registering device which registers, as a scene change history record, a history of single scene change determination results by the single scene determining device; and a total scene change determining device which determines whether the photographic scene has changed or not based on the scene change history record.