Patent ID: 7667759

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: an image receiving part for outputting image data in accordance with a shooting instruction; a recording part for recording image data output from the image receiving part; a display part for displaying the image data sequentially output from the image receiving part and the image data recorded in the recording part at the same time; and a control part for controlling such that (1) the image data selected from the image data recorded in the recording part in accordance with the shooting instruction, and the image data output from the image receiving part in real time are displayed on the display part at the same time, and (2) the image data selected from the image data recorded in the recording part in accordance with an instruction other than the shooting instruction, and the image data output from the image receiving part in real time are displayed on the display part at the same time, wherein the recording part further stores a record of image data as a database for reference used at the time of shooting, and the image data selected from the recording part in accordance with the instruction other than from the shooting instruction are image data searched from the database.