Imaging device with function to image still picture during moving picture imaging

Abstract

When an imaging device records a moving picture captured as a moving picture file, a representative picture that indicates the content of the moving picture is created and embedded in the moving picture file. If no still picture is captured simultaneously during the moving picture imaging, a frame picture at the beginning of moving picture frames is used as a representative picture. When a still picture is captured simultaneously during the moving picture imaging, the still picture is used as a representative picture of the moving picture. When reproducing recorded pictures, representative pictures of still pictures and representative pictures of moving pictures may be displayed at once on a selection screen that is displayed for image selection purposes. Among the displayed representative pictures, a representative picture of a moving picture during which a still picture was simultaneously captured represents an image of a scene for which the user's interest is higher than other scenes during the moving picture imaging, and is identical to the subsequent representative image of the still picture that was captured simultaneously during the moving picture imaging.