Patent ID: 8006276
Filing Date: 2011-08-23
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image-taking apparatus for taking an image of a subject, comprising: image taking means for taking an image of said subject; communication means for communicating, via a network, with a mate of communication that is another image-taking apparatus; storage means for storing images taken by said image taking means; image acquire means for acquiring, via said network, at least one image from images taken by a mate of communication and stored in said storage means on the mate of communication, said images taken and stored comprising a most recently taken image and previously taken images; and display means for displaying, simultaneously onto one screen, an image that the image-taking apparatus is about to take and images acquired from the mate of communication, wherein images acquired from the mate of communication are displayed in a time sequence of image taken, wherein an image that is newest in the time sequence is displayed in a size larger than other images acquired from the mate of communication, and the image that the image-taking apparatus is about to take is displayed in a size larger than the image that is newest in the time sequence.