Patent ID: 8085332
Filing Date: 2011-12-27
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image pickup apparatus which includes an optical viewfinder, comprising: a touch panel provided in a rear display of the apparatus; a registering part configured to register whether an eye of a user viewing an object image through the optical viewfinder is a right eye or a left eye; a setting part configured to set a non-enterable area where touch entry is not permitted in the touch panel to a first area when information indicating that the right eye is registered by the registering part, and to set the non-enterable area to a second area different from the first area when information indicating that the left eye is registered by the registering part; and a controller configured to control the apparatus such that the apparatus does not perform an operation in response to a touch to the non-enterable area in the touch panel and the apparatus performs an operation in response to a touch to an area other than the non-enterable area in the touch panel.