Patent ID: 8023816
Filing Date: 2011-09-20
Classification: G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A camera that can display, record and play digital data after converting an image captured with an image capturing element into the digital data, comprising: a guidance display setting means for displaying and setting, as a first layer of a hierarchy, a plurality of guidance selection items, each item being represented as an expression corresponding to an intention of a person who takes a photo and indicating a desired finished quality of a shot image instead of a parameter value setting, to be used when capturing an image; a recording means for correspondingly recording more than one selection item that indicates a shooting operation condition instead of the parameter value setting, to be used when capturing an image as a selection item of a second layer of the hierarchy that is a lower layer of each guidance selection item displayed on the first layer of the hierarchy; an item selection means for selecting a selection item, from the second layer, that indicates a shooting operation condition, and that is displayed in response to one guidance item selected from the guidance selection items set as the display of the first layer; a shooting control setting means for setting a shooting control for capturing an image with the image capturing element which corresponds to the item selected by the item selection means; and a display control means for displaying information about a setting when the setting of the control is made by the shooting control setting means,