Patent ID: 7961241

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging unit that picks up an image including an object image; a first storage unit that stores the image picked up by the imaging unit; a display unit that displays the image stored by the first storage unit; a first display control unit that performs control to superimpose and display a circular guide, which corresponds to a shape of a contour of the object image after correction, on the image displayed on the display unit; a detection unit that detects the contour of the object image displayed on the display unit; a first correction unit that corrects the object image such that a shape of the contour detected by the detection unit takes a circular shape based on the circular guide displayed by the first display control unit; a second storage unit that stores the object image corrected by the first correction unit; a revision-information storage unit that stores, in association with each other, a plurality of guides and corresponding revision information for correcting the object image; a guide selecting unit that selects a specific guide from the plurality of guides stored in the revision-information storage unit; and a reading unit that reads out the revision information corresponding to the guide selected by the guide selecting unit from the revision-information storage unit, wherein the display unit also displays the guide selected by the guide selecting unit, wherein the plurality of guides include plural types of elliptical images, wherein the revision information stored in the revision-information storage unit in association with the guides includes magnification information for performing enlargement correction or reduction correction in at least one of a major-axial direction and a minor-axial direction, for correcting the elliptical images to circular shapes, and wherein the first correction unit corrects the object image according to the magnification information read by the reading unit.