Patent ID: 7675563
Filing Date: 2010-03-09
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital camera comprising: an optical system for forming an optical image of a subject; a conversion unit that converts the formed optical image of the subject into a digital image; a selection unit that selects a layout at the playback time of the digital image output by the conversion unit; a display; a determination unit that determines whether playback orientation of the digital image output by the conversion unit is portrait or landscape based on an orientation of a whole thumbnail representing entirety of the layout and an orientation of a frame for placing the digital image, which are described in subordinate information of a camera thumbnail for displaying the layout on the display, and the determination unit that determines a display position of an object indicating how to hold the digital camera at the ready based on the determination result and the selected layout; a display controller that combines the object and an image output by the conversion unit to display on the display based on the determined display position in a state in which a still image record command can be entered; and an image recorder that stores a digital still image output by the conversion unit in nonvolatile memory in association with the selected layout when a still image record command is entered.