Patent ID: 7652694

Claim:
An image pick-up apparatus with a monitor for displaying a captured image, comprising: an input device which inputs a character and/or an image to be combined with an image displayed on the monitor; a touch panel which is mounted on a screen of the monitor, and is capable of accepting a pen-input character and image; a mode set device which sets a mode of the apparatus into paint mode or file name change mode; a composition device which combines the character and/or the image input through the input device in the paint mode, or the pen-input character and the image from the touch panel, with the image displayed on the monitor, and generates a composite image; a record instruction device which instructs a record of the composite image generated by the composition device in the paint mode; a record control device which records a composite image generated by the composition device in accordance with an instruction of the record instruction device in the paint mode in a recording medium, the record control device adding an identification symbol for identifying that the image recorded in the recording medium is a composite image and an identification symbol for identification of an input source of the character and/or image which is combined with the composite image, to a part of a file name of the composite image when the composite image is recorded in the recording medium; a file name change instruction device which instructs a change of a file name of an image displayed on the monitor in the file name change mode; a character data storage device which stores prescribed character data; a character recognition device which recognizes a pen-input character from the touch panel in the file name change mode based on character data stored in the character data storage device; and a file name rewrite device which rewrites a file name of an image displayed on the monitor into a file name input by the touch panel in accordance with an instruction of the file name change instruction device in the file name change mode.