Patent ID: 9344633
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: G03B,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging section which photographs a subject; a composite display section which displays, by composite display, a provisional subject image that is not present in an image from the imaging section such that the provisional subject image is arranged on a predetermined position in a live view screen where the image from the imaging section is displayed as a live view image; a display control section which, when at least one of a photographing position, a photographing direction, and a photographing magnification is changed in a state where the provisional subject image is displayed by the composite display by the composite display section, changes a display state of the provisional subject image in the live view screen according to a change amount of the at least one of the photographing position, the photographing direction, and the photographing magnification, in response to a change of the live view image; and a specifying section which specifies a position at which an actual subject image actually appears in a photographed image obtained by provisional photographing by the imaging section before the composite display by the composite display section; wherein the composite display section arranges, as the provisional subject image that is not present in the image from the imaging section, an image corresponding to the actual subject image at the position specified by the specifying section in the live view screen; and wherein the display control section changes the display state of the provisional subject image in the live view screen according to the change amount when at least one of the photographing position, the photographing direction, and the photographing magnification is changed, with reference to the photographing position, the photographing direction, and the photographing magnification at a time of the provisional photographing.