Patent ID: 8854509

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus, comprising: an image pickup unit to continuously pick up a plurality of images having a mutual displacement therebetween using an image pickup device; a storage unit to store a position of a defect area of the image pickup device; an image compensation unit to compensate for the defect area in one of the plurality of picked up images using another one of the plurality of picked up images; a user interface unit to display a live-view image picked up by the image pickup unit; and a control unit to control the image pickup unit to pick up a full-frame image through a shutter operation after the live-view image being displayed is stored as the another one of the plurality of picked up images if a shutter command is input while the live-view is displayed and to control the image pickup unit to pick up a plurality of full-frame images through a shutter operation if a shutter command is input without the live-view display operation.