Patent ID: 9413970
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: G03B,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A camera comprising: an optical viewfinder formed on the front of the camera and having an objective window facing a subject and an eyepiece window for looking at the subject seen through the objective window; a solid-state electronic image sensing device for imaging the subject and outputting image data representing the image of the subject; a display unit for displaying a portion of the image of the subject, which is represented by the image data that has been output from said solid-state electronic image sensing device, on a display screen; a deflecting unit for introducing the portion of the image of the subject, which is being displayed on the display screen of said display unit, to the eyepiece window so as to be superimposed upon the subject seen through the eyepiece window; a camera-shake detection device for detecting shaking of the camera; and a camera-shake notification device for notifying of camera shake in response to the fact that camera shake has been detected by said camera-shake detection device, wherein said display unit displays a portion of the subject image on the display screen in such a manner that a principal subject seen through said optical viewfinder and a principal subject image among subject images captured in said solid-state electronic image sensing device will coincide, and wherein said camera-shake notification device notifies of camera shake by displaying, on the display screen of said display unit, a character string to the effect that camera shake is taking place or an image representing the fact that camera shake is taking place, or by changing the form of a border, which encloses a portion of the image of the subject, in accordance with whether or not camera shake is taking place.