Patent ID: 8581994

Claim:
A photographing apparatus comprising: a) an image capturing unit for generating an image signal from an obtained optical image of an object; b) a display unit configured to display at least one of an image or photographing apparatus information; c) an operation unit configured to receive manual user input instructions for controlling operations of the photographing apparatus; d) a signal transmitter/receiver unit configured to (i) transmit a signal to a display device external to the photographing apparatus in order to display the image on the display device, and (ii) receive a control signal for the photographing apparatus from the display device; and e) a power source control unit configured to control power supplied to the display unit and the operation unit, wherein the power source control unit reduces the power supplied to at least one of the display unit or the operation unit responsive to the receipt of a control signal, from the display device, by the signal transmitter/receiver unit, wherein the control signal received from the display device is based on a remote control command transmitted from an external remote control device by a user operation, and received by the display device, the photographing apparatus having a shooting mode for photographing and a playback mode for displaying a recorded image, wherein after reducing power supplied to at least one of the display unit or the operation unit, the power source control unit (A) stops the reduction of power supply responsive to the detection of an elapse of a predetermined period of time after a start of the reduction of power supply when the photographic apparatus is in the shooting mode, and (B) maintains the reduction of power supply responsive to the detection of an elapse of a predetermined period of time after a start of the reduction of power supply when the photographic apparatus is in the playback mode.