Patent ID: 8422873

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging unit to capture an image of a subject; a display unit on which the image is displayed; an inclination detector to detect an inclination of the imaging apparatus; an inclination indicator unit to allow the display unit to display an indicator to indicate the inclination on the image captured by the imaging unit based on a result of the detection of the inclination detector, wherein the indicator comprises a plurality of indicator portions arranged with an equal interval in a predetermined criterial direction; when the inclination detected by the inclination detector is within a predetermined range of angles, the inclination indicator unit highlights a pattern of the indicator portions, using one of the indicator portions located at a center to indicate that the imaging apparatus is in a horizontal state; when the inclination detected by the inclination detector is beyond the predetermined range of angles, the inclination indicator unit highlights one of the indicator portions in accordance with a degree of the inclination to indicate that the imaging apparatus is in an inclined state; and when the imaging apparatus is greatly inclined beyond a degree of inclination corresponding to an outermost one of the indicator portions, the inclination indicator unit integrally highlights one of two outermost indicator portions and upper and lower ends of indicator portions on an inclined side, to indicate that the imaging apparatus is in an extremely inclined state; and when the inclination of the imaging apparatus becomes equal to or below the degree of inclination corresponding to the outermost one of the indicator portions, the inclination indicator unit highlights one of the indicator portions in accordance with a degree of the inclination detected by the inclination detector to indicate that the imaging apparatus is in an inclined state.