Patent ID: 9013618
Filing Date: 2015-04-21
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image pickup apparatus comprising: an image pickup unit; a display unit configured to display a live image picked up by the image pickup unit; a photographic preparation unit configured to adjust a photographic setting; a photographic processing unit configured to effect the photography by the image pickup unit on the basis of the photographic setting adjusted by the photographic preparation unit and execute a recording processing for recording a photographed image in a recording medium; a detection processing unit configured to detect a touch operation applied to the display unit and a touch position of the touch operation; a control unit configured to effect control to cause the photographic preparation unit to execute a photographic preparation processing to adjust the photographic setting in response to a touch to the display unit being detected and cause the photographic processing unit to execute the recording processing in response to the detection unit detecting that the display unit loses the touch, wherein the control unit controls to cause the photographic preparation unit to cancel the photographic preparation processing in a case where after a touch for causing the photographic preparation unit to execute the photographic preparation processing is detected, a position of the touch moves to an edge position of the display unit without losing the touch.