Image recording apparatus

An image recording apparatus comprising:

• an image selecting circuit for selecting either of a motion image and a still image that are outputted;
• a display device on which a motion image or a still image selected by the image selecting circuit is displayed;
• a remote controller for use in instructing start of image recording;
• a recording processing circuit for recording a motion image or a still image;
• an image recording medium onto which an image is recorded by the recording processing circuit;
• a recording control circuit for, when image recording from the remote controller is instructed, controlling to determine a recording mode, in which one of a motion image and a still image is recorded by the recording circuit, responsively to selection state of the image selecting circuit.

An image recording method to be implemented in an image recording apparatus that freezes an input image signal to output the resultant signal to a display device, comprising:

• a recording starting step of instructing start of image recording;
• a displayed state judging step of judging the state of an image displayed on the display device;
• a recording mode setting step of setting a recording mode according to the result of judgment at the displayed state judging step;
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• a recording processing step of recording an image displayed on the display device onto a predetermined recording medium according to the result of setting at the recording mode setting step.

An image recording method to be implemented in an image recording apparatus having the ability to select one of a motion image and a still image selected by an image selecting circuit to output the selected image to a display device, the image recording method comprising:

• a recording starting step of instructing start of image recording;
• a displayed image judging step of judging whether an image selected by the image selecting circuit and displayed on the display device is a still image or a motion image;
• a recording mode setting step of automatically setting a recording mode, in which one of a still image and a motion image is recorded, according to the result of judgment at the displayed image judging step;
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• a recording processing step of recording a still image or a motion image displayed on the display device onto a recording medium according to the result of setting at the recording mode setting step.