Imaging device

Abstract

An imaging device includes an imaging sensor that outputs an imaging signal representing a sequence of frame images of a photographic subject. A buffer memory temporarily stores data of the sequence of frame images from the imaging signal. A release switch is actuated by a user to output an image-taking signal. A controller, upon receipt of the image-taking signal from the release switch: (i) generates moving image data from at least some of the plurality of frame images stored in the buffer memory, (ii) generates at least one piece of still image data based on at least one frame image of the plurality of frame images stored in the buffer memory, and (iii) associates the moving image data with the still image data and records the moving image data and the still image data in a recording medium.

1 . An imaging device comprising:
 a storage unit that sequentially stores a plurality of frame images based on an imaging signal from an imaging sensor that images light from a subject;   a moving image data generation unit that generates slow motion moving image data that is to be played at a second frame rate lower than a first frame rate that represents the number of the frame images stored per unit time in the storage unit, based on the plurality of frame images stored in the storage unit during a predetermined time;   a still image data generation unit that generates at least one piece of still image data based on at least one frame image of the plurality of frame images stored in the storage unit during the predetermined time; and   a record control unit that associates the slow motion moving image data generated by the moving image data generation unit with the still image data generated by the still image data generation unit and records the moving image data and the still image data in a recording medium.