Patent ID: 7092024
Filing Date: 2006-08-15
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An electronic camera comprising: an imaging element that converts an optical image that passes through a photographing lens into a digital image by operating a release switch to an ON state; a display device capable of displaying said digital image; a pen-type designator capable of designating an arbitrary position on a display screen of said display device; a pen position detecting device that detects the position designated by said pen-type designator; a pen trail display controller that causes said display device to display a movement trail of the detected designated position; and a pen detection controller that inhibits said imaging element from forming an image of a next frame and allows said pen position detecting device to detect said designated position and allows said pen trail display controller to control display of said movement trail, while said release switch is kept operated to the ON state after the imaging element terminates forming an image of one frame, said pen detection controller enabling said imaging element to effect forming an image of the next frame when said release switch is thereafter operated to an OFF state.