Patent ID: 7304664

Claim:
A digital camera comprising: a photographing unit that takes an image in a photographing mode; a display unit that displays the taken image; an output unit that outputs the taken image to a printer unit in a printing mode; and a control unit that controls to display a printing progress situation of the printer unit on said display unit in the printing mode, wherein, when said control unit controls to display the printing progress situation of the printer unit on said display unit in the printing mode, said control unit controls, in response to an instruction by a user to shift an operation mode to the photographing mode, to display the taken image supplied from said photographing unit and information indicating the printing progress situation in the photographing mode so that the information indicating the printing progress situation and the taken image taken in the photographing mode are displayed together in such a manner that the taken image is displayed in a larger size and the information indicating the printing progress situation is displayed in a smaller size, and when a printing operation of the printer unit ends, said control unit controls to maintain the photographing mode shifted from the printing mode, and then stop displaying the information indicating the printing progress situation so that the image taken in the maintained photographing mode is displayed.