Imaging apparatus and movement controlling method thereof

An imaging apparatus comprising:

• an imaging unit which continuously images a subject in an imaging range and continuously outputs imaged image data;
• a first recording control unit which, if a recording instruction is given, records image data imaged at the timing, at which the recording instruction is given, in a recording medium as image data representing a first subject image;
• an object detection unit which detects all objects satisfying a predetermined condition from subject images for object detection among subject images represented by image data continuously output from the imaging unit;
• a first distance information calculation unit which calculates distance information between an object closest to the imaging apparatus and an object farthest from the object detection unit among a plurality of objects;
• a parallax amount decision unit which decides a parallax amount based on the distance information calculated by the first distance information calculation unit;
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• a second recording control unit which, when the imaging apparatus is deviated in a horizontal direction to make the amount of deviation between a subject image represented by image data continuously output from the imaging unit and the first subject image in the horizontal direction equal to the parallax amount decided by the parallax amount decision unit, records image data imaged at this timing as image data representing a second subject image in the recording medium in association with image data representing the first subject image.