Patent ID: 6876386

Claim:
A digital still camera comprising: an imaging device for imaging a subject and outputting a video signal, which represents an original image of a subject having a number of horizontal lines rather than a number of horizontal lines of display image which can be displayed on the display screen of the display device; a downsampling device for downsampling the video signal outputted from said imaging device using a first downsampling-ratio wherein a number of lines of the original image represented by the video signal outputted from said imaging device is smaller than a number of lines of the display image; a display controller for displaying the image represented by a video signal, which is downsampled by said downsampling device, on the display screen of the display device; a zoom area designating device for designating a zoom area from the image displayed on the display screen; and an electronic zoom device for processing an electronic zoom wherein the image included in the zoom area designated by said zoom area designating device is displayed entirely on the display screen of the display device, using a zoom ratio, comprising: a controller for controlling said downsampling device so as to carry out the downsampling processing using a second downsampling-ratio, which ratio of downsampling is smaller than the first downsampling ratio, when the zoom ratio at said electronic zoom device is higher than a zoom ratio which enlarges the original image to the image after downsampling using the first downsampling ratio.