Patent ID: 8305464
Filing Date: 2012-11-06
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging apparatus, comprising: an image recording range extraction unit for extracting, from a video of a subject to be imaged, an image corresponding to a first imaging region configured by a predetermined first aspect ratio and an image corresponding to a second imaging region configured by a predetermined second aspect ratio different from the first aspect ratio; a zoom control unit for magnifying or reducing the video of the subject to be imaged; and a zoom restriction setting unit for setting a zoom restriction on either one of or both of the first imaging region and the second imaging region to prevent a predetermined subject from being image-defected from an imaging region by a zoom process of the zoom control unit, wherein a predetermined process for preventing the predetermined subject from being image-defected from an imaging region set with the zoom restriction is executed according to a relationship of the predetermined subject magnified or reduced by the zoom process and the imaging region set with the zoom restriction, further comprising: an image display range extraction unit for extracting a display image to display on a display from the video of the subject to be imaged; a notification image generation unit for generating a notification image including a zoom state notification icon showing a relationship of the predetermined subject and the imaging region set with the zoom restriction according to the zoom process; an image synthesizing unit for synthesizing the notification image generated by the notification image generation unit to the display image extracted by the image display range extraction unit to generate a synthesized image; and a display control unit for displaying the synthesized image generated by the image synthesizing unit on the display.