An accident recording device for reducing capacity and thereof method

The present invention is a technique related to the storage capacity reduced accident recording apparatus and method. Storage capacitance reducing accident recording apparatus according to the invention is located, the entire image compression unit, and a peripheral vehicle of the image data entire screen is received from the image obtaining unit that down-converted by compressing the image data, full resolution is received from the image capture unit a determining part of the screen that the partial image compressing unit for compressing a portion of the screen range determining section, and a partial image data of the extracted to extract the partial image data for the portion of the screen of the determination, the compression and the compressed portion of the screen data It includes a storage unit for storing the entire image data.