Patent ID: 8300134
Filing Date: 2012-10-30
Classification: G09G,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image-taking apparatus comprising: an image recording range extracting unit that extracts an image corresponding to a first image-taking region having a predetermined first aspect ratio and an image corresponding to a second image-taking region having a predetermined second aspect ratio from a video image of a subject of an image-taking target to record the image corresponding to the first image-taking region and the image corresponding to the second image-taking region, the second aspect ratio being different from the first aspect ratio; an image display range extracting unit that extracts an image having an aspect ratio of a display region of a display device from the video image of the subject of the image-taking target in a range where the first image-taking region is maximally displayed, the display device displaying the images corresponding to the first image-taking region and the second image-taking region; a region notification image producing unit that produces a region notification image indicating that the second image-taking region exists outside the display region of the display device when the second image-taking region exists outside the region of the image extracted by the image display range extracting unit; an image combining unit that produces a display image by combining the region notification image produced by the region notification image producing unit with the image extracted by the image display range extracting unit; and a display control unit that displays the display image produced by the image combining unit on the display device, wherein the region notification image producing unit produces the region notification image including a region notification icon, indicating a direction of the second image-taking region existing outside the display region of the display device, wherein the region notification image producing unit produces the region notification image including a guide frame indicating a boundary of the second image-taking region when part of the boundary of the second image-taking region exists in the display region of the display device, the guide frame, wherein a combination of the first aspect ratio and the second aspect ratio is an aspect ratio that is arbitrarily selected by a user, wherein a combination of the first aspect ratio and the second aspect ratio is automatically switched according to an image-taking mode selected by the user, and wherein the region notification image producing unit produces a region notification image that is different from a region notification image in a state in which the image recording range extracting unit does not record the image corresponding to the second image-taking region, when the image recording range extracting unit is recording the image corresponding to the second image-taking region.