Patent ID: 8432474

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus comprising: an image pickup unit configured to pick up an image; a recording control unit configured to effect recording control in such a manner that in the case where at least either photographing settings at the time when the image is picked up by the image pickup unit or object information of the picked-up image coincides with one of a plurality of classification-information-providing-conditions, (a) classification information corresponding to the coincident classification-information-providing-condition, (b) the picked-up image, and (c) judgment information serving as information showing the coincident classification-information-providing-condition are stored in an image file and the image file is recorded onto a recording medium; and a display control unit configured to effect display control in such a manner that there are displayed to a display unit (a) the image stored in the image file recorded on the recording medium, (b) the classification information stored in the image file recorded on the recording medium, and (c) a plurality of classification-information-providing-conditions which include (i) a classification-information-providing-condition which coincides when the classification information stored in the image file is recorded by the recording control unit and (ii) a classification-information-providing-condition which serves as a condition under which the classification information is stored in the image file by the recording control unit and which does not coincide when the classification information stored in the image file is recorded by the recording control unit, wherein among the plurality of displayed classification-information-providing-conditions, the classification-information-providing-condition which coincides when the classification information stored in the image file is recorded by the recording control unit is recognizably displayed based on the judgment information.