An image capture apparatus having an image capture unit, a memory, an image compression unit, an image display unit, a control unit, a refresh control unit, and an arbitration unit adapted to assign a higher priority to a process of providing image data from the image capture unit to the memory than a process of refreshing the memory and a process of accessing the memory by the control unit, to assign a higher priority to a process of refreshing the memory and a process of accessing the memory by the control unit than to a process of compressing image data stored in the memory by the image compression unit, to assign a higher priority to a process of providing image data from the memory to the image display unit than a process of refreshing the memory and a process of accessing the memory by the control unit, and to assign a higher priority to a process of refreshing the memory than a process of accessing the memory by the control unit.