Patent ID: 7428006

Claim:
A digital camera comprising: a photographing unit which picks-up an image and obtains image data; a storage control unit which stores the image data in the form of an image data file in a predetermined manner in a recording medium; a reconstruction control unit which reconstructs the image data stored in said recording medium; an image data processing unit which combines the image data picked-up by said photographing unit and the image data reconstructed by said reconstruction control unit to produce an image data, and makes said recording medium store the produced image data; a display unit which displays the images; a display control unit which makes said display unit simultaneously display the image data obtained by said photographing unit for monitoring and the image data reconstructed by said reconstruction control unit, or which makes said display unit display the image data produced by said image data processing unit; and an operational instruction inputting unit which provides operational instruction signals to said photographing unit, said storage control unit, said image data processing unit, and said display control unit; wherein said photographing unit includes a plurality of CCDs which simultaneously pick-up an image of same or a plurality of objects and obtain a plurality of image data, said display control unit can make said display unit simultaneously display the plurality of image data obtained by said photographing unit, and said operation instruction signals include translation instructions input by a user to move a first image with respect to the image data obtained by said photographing unit for monitoring after the first image and the image data obtained by said photographing unit for monitoring are displayed by the display unit, said image data obtained by said photographing unit for monitoring being most recent image data measured by said photographing unit, and wherein said photographing unit can simultaneously obtain a plurality of images of the same object at different exposure values.