Patent ID: 8013925
Filing Date: 2011-09-06
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging device for outputting an optical image of an object as an electrical image signal, the imaging device comprising: an imaging optical system for forming the optical image of the object; an imaging sensor for receiving the optical image of the object formed by the imaging optical system, for converting the optical image into the electrical image signal, and for outputting the electrical image signal; an attitude detection section for detecting an attitude of the imaging device at the time of shooting; an image recording section for interrelating and recording the outputted image signal and attitude information indicative of the detected attitude; a display section for displaying a reduced image based on the recorded image signal; a reception section for receiving a selection of either a vertical image or a horizontal image from a user; and an image display control section for restoring an orientation of the reduced image so as to correspond to the attitude of the imaging device at the time of the shooting in accordance with the attitude information and for causing the display section to display the restored reduced image, wherein when the vertical image and the horizontal image are arranged on the display section, the image display control section changes, in accordance with a result of the selection, locations of the vertical image and the horizontal image on the display section, and changes a display size of either the vertical image or the horizontal image, which corresponds to the selection, to be larger than the other, and the image display control section changes the number of the vertical images and the horizontal images to be displayed on the display section in accordance with the result of the selection.