Patent ID: 7884970

Claim:
An information processing apparatus, comprising: image pickup means for picking up an image of a subject; display means for displaying the image of the subject picked up by said image pickup means as a first preview image, the first preview image being provided with the approximately same edge boundaries as the image of the subject picked up by the image pickup means and the display means having a physical screen pixel size corresponding to a maximum physical screen size of the display means; storage means for storing the image of the subject picked up by said image pickup means as a still image; designation means for designating a still image pixel size of the still image to be stored into said storage means; display control means for controlling said display means to only display, for at least a predetermined period, a second preview image of the subject picked up by said image pickup means with approximately the same pixel size and edge boundaries as the still image with the still image pixel size designated by said designation means in response to the designation and before the picked up image is captured and stored as the still image; and capture and storage control means for controlling said storage means under the control of said display control means to capture and store an image corresponding to the second preview image displayed on said display means and having the still image pixel size designated by said designation means, wherein the information processing apparatus is handheld, fully operates in a hand-held shooting mode, includes at least a cellular phone, and includes the image pickup means, the second preview image has different edge boundaries than the image of the subject picked up by the image pickup means only when the still image pixel size of the still image designated by the designation means is different than the physical screen pixel size of the display means, and the sum of the pixel size of the first preview image and the pixel size of the second preview image is greater than the physical screen pixel size of the display means.