Patent ID: 8013894
Filing Date: 2011-09-06
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image capturing apparatus comprising: an image capture unit that captures an image; an interface unit that writes an image file including the captured image to a storage medium; a display unit that displays the captured image stored in the storage medium; an attitude detecting unit that detects an attitude of the image capturing apparatus; and a control unit that (a) controls the image capturing apparatus to display one captured image on the display unit if the attitude of the image capturing apparatus is changed from a first attitude to a second attitude different from the first attitude and then is returned from the second attitude to the first attitude within a predetermined time when an image display mode of the image capturing apparatus is a multiple image display mode for displaying a plurality of captured images on the display unit, and (b) controls the image capturing apparatus to display the plurality of captured images on the display unit if the attitude of the image capturing apparatus is changed from the first attitude to the second attitude and then is returned from the second attitude to the first attitude within the predetermined time when the image display mode of the image capturing apparatus is a single image display mode for displaying one captured image on the display unit, wherein the first attitude and the second attitude are produced by changing a position of the image capturing apparatus.