Patent ID: 9279671
Filing Date: 2016-03-08
CPC Classification: G01B,G03B,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An image pickup apparatus comprising: an image-pickup mode setter which sets one image-pickup mode in a plurality of image-pickup modes for each specific image-pickup scene in which a control for picking-up images is preliminarily set depending on the specific image-pickup scene; an inclination detector which detects an inclination of the image-pickup apparatus; a display processor for showing, on a display device, an inclination guide display depending on the inclination detected by the inclination detector; and a display controller which controls display of the inclination guide display in accordance with an image-pickup mode for the specific image-pickup scene, which is set by the image-pickup mode setter, wherein the display controller changes a level of exaggeration of the inclination guide display in accordance with the image-pickup mode for the specific image-pickup scene set by the image-pickup mode setter.