Patent ID: 9204051
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image pickup apparatus comprising: an image pickup section configured by an image pickup optical system for forming an optical image, and an image pickup device for photoelectrically converting the optical image formed by the image pickup optical system and generating first image data; a storage section for temporarily storing the first image data picked up by the image pickup section or second image data picked up in a past; a display section for displaying an image based on the first image data or the second image data stored in the storage section; an operation section for making a division instruction that a region to be displayed on the display section is to be divided, and a flick instruction for making an instruction for providing a reduced image of image data displayed on the display section; an attitude detection section for detecting in which one of an attitude of a vertical position and a horizontal position the image pickup section performs photographing; and a signal processing control section including at least a display control section for driving the display section, and an image processing section for performing image signal processing on the first image data or the second image data, wherein the signal processing control section, in accordance with a result detected by the attitude detection section, performs display control of displaying, on the display section, an image based on the second image data that is temporarily stored in the storage section, and if the signal processing control section receives the division instruction from the dividing operation section, dividing a display region of the display section, causing second image data to be displayed in one of regions obtained by the division, and repeatedly updating/displaying first image data acquired by the image pickup section in a display region, of the display section, different from a display region of the second image, while when the signal processing control section receives the flick instruction from the operation section, causing the display section to display the first image data, and displaying in a superimposed manner a reduced image of the second image data at a display position set in advance.