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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2022
Filed:
May. 13, 2020
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Tomohiro Sekiguchi, Kawasaki, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image capturing apparatus comprises an image capturing unit, a compressing unit which compression-encodes captured video data in units of GOPs using a first compression method which generates encoded data of a closed GOP or a second compression method which generates encoded data of an open GOP; and a control unit which performs control to record the video data on a plurality of mediums, wherein the control unit records, on a first medium, the video data acquired before a recording start instruction is input, and records, on a second medium, the video data acquired by the image capturing unit in response to the recording start instruction being input, wherein the control unit performs control to record, on the first medium, the video data compression-encoded using the first compression method.