Patent ID: 8040398
Filing Date: 2011-10-18
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging apparatus comprising: an image capturing unit; an imaging lens; a moving unit that moves the imaging lens; a digital zoom starting point setting unit that presets a digital zoom starting point in a movable range of the imaging lens between a tele side and a wide side of an optical zooming; an adjusting unit that adjusts a clipped area for an image to be captured by the image capturing unit; a position setting unit that causes the moving unit to move the imaging lens to a given position between the tele side and the wide side of the optical zooming when the adjusting unit starts to adjust the clipped area, wherein the given position corresponds to the preset digital zoom starting point; a display unit that displays, at a first location, a first number of pixels of the clipped area adjusted by the adjusting unit; a storage unit; a setting unit that presets a second number of pixels of an image to be recorded in the storage unit; a judging unit that judges whether or not the first number of pixels is larger than the second number of pixels; and a display controller that controls the display unit to display the second number of pixels at the first location in place of the first number of pixels when the judging unit judges that the first number of pixels is larger than the second number of pixels, wherein a display operation based on the display unit, the judging unit and the display controller is performed before capture of the image to be captured by the image capturing unit.