Patent ID: 7250968

Claim:
An information recording device comprising: an imaging section which captures an image and generates image information; a recording section which records the image information generated by the imaging section; a display section which displays an image represented by the image information recorded at the recording section; a zoom information input section which, when electronic zoom is to be applied to the image during execution of at least one of duplication of the image information and display of the image information by the display section, inputs zoom information including at least ratio information representing a zoom rate of the electronic zoom; and a limiting section which limits such that pixel numbers in each of a horizontal direction and a vertical direction of an image represented by the image information generated by the imaging section are greater than pixel numbers in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction of an image to which the electronic zoom has been applied, and such that the zoom ratio is not more than a magnification rate upper limit value, the magnification rate upper limit value being determined on the basis of the pixel numbers in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction of the image represented by the image information generated by the imaging section and the pixel numbers in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction of the image to which the electronic zoom has been applied.