Abstract: Disclosed is an imaging device including: imaging means for capturing an image; moving image data generation means for generating moving image data as image data for a moving image from an image captured by the imaging means; still image data generation means for, when the moving image data generation means generates the moving image data, generating still image data as image data for a still image from an image captured by the imaging means; and display data generation means for, when the moving image data is generated, generating first display data for displaying an image corresponding to the moving image data and, when the still image data is generated, generating second display data for displaying an image representing generation of the still image data in parallel with generation of the first display data.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus that records, on a recording medium, a moving image captured using a solid-state imaging device as stream data, is disclosed. The apparatus includes: an image encoding section that encodes data of the captured moving image with a unit of an image group being a sequence of images of a fixed number of frames; an input detection section that detects a recording stop request to stop recording of the stream data including the moving image data being an encoding result of the image encoding section onto the recording medium; and a recording control section that controls a recording operation of the stream data onto the recording medium such that, when the recording stop request is detected by the input detection section, the image group located immediately before the image group including an image captured at the time of detection is the last image group.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a recording apparatus and a method, a playback apparatus and a method, a recording medium, and a program capable of quickly playing back a picture associated with a unit in which a moving image is encoded. An extraction section 51 extracts one picture from each GOP. A number-of-pixels conversion section 40 reduces the amount of information of the extracted picture by thinning out pixels. A static-image compression section 41 encodes the picture whose amount of information has been reduced by a JPEG technique. A microcomputer 31 associates the encoded picture with the GOP from which the picture has been extracted and controls recording of the picture associated with the GOP onto a disk 45 on which the moving image is to be recorded. The present invention can be applied to a recording apparatus for recording a moving image onto a data recording medium.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a recording apparatus and a method, a playback apparatus and a method, a recording medium, and a program capable of quickly playing back a picture associated with a unit in which a moving image is encoded. An extraction section 51 extracts one picture from each GOP. A number-of-pixels conversion section 40 reduces the amount of information of the extracted picture by thinning out pixels. A static-image compression section 41 encodes the picture whose amount of information has been reduced by a JPEG technique. A microcomputer 31 associates the encoded picture with the GOP from which the picture has been extracted and controls recording of the picture associated with the GOP onto a disk 45 on which the moving image is to be recorded. The present invention can be applied to a recording apparatus for recording a moving image onto a data recording medium.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus that records, on a recording medium, a moving image captured using a solid-state imaging device as stream data, is disclosed. The apparatus includes: an image encoding section that encodes data of the captured moving image with a unit of an image group being a sequence of images of a fixed number of frames; an input detection section that detects a recording stop request to stop recording of the stream data including the moving image data being an encoding result of the image encoding section onto the recording medium; and a recording control section that controls a recording operation of the stream data onto the recording medium such that, when the recording stop request is detected by the input detection section, the image group located immediately before the image group including an image captured at the time of detection is the last image group.

Abstract: Disclosed is an imaging device including: imaging means for capturing an image; moving image data generation means for generating moving image data as image data for a moving image from an image captured by the imaging means; still image data generation means for, when the moving image data generation means generates the moving image data, generating still image data as image data for a still image from an image captured by the imaging means; and display data generation means for, when the moving image data is generated, generating first display data for displaying an image corresponding to the moving image data and, when the still image data is generated, generating second display data for displaying an image representing generation of the still image data in parallel with generation of the first display data.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for generating a clock signal phase-locked to a horizontal synchronization signal of a digital video signal in which noise superposed on the horizontal synchronization signal is eliminated or reduced. To eliminate or reduce such noise, a noise suppressing device located prior to a phase comparator may be utilized. Such noise suppressing block may include a slice circuit and/or a spike removing circuit.