Patent ID: 7394496

Claim:
A digital camera comprising: a reproducing unit responsive to a reproduction instruction by an operator for reproducing a still image from a recording medium, a first forming unit responsive to said reproduction instruction for forming a still image frame equal to a rectangular monitor frame on a monitor, a still image display unit displaying said still image in said still image frame, an image pickup unit picking up an image of an object, a second forming unit responsive to a motion image frame forming instruction by said operator for forming a rectangular motion image frame smaller than said monitor frame on said monitor, a motion image display unit displaying a motion image of said object picked up by said image pickup unit in said motion image frame, and a recording unit responsive to a recording instruction by said operator for recording an image in said monitor frame on said recording medium, wherein said second forming unit includes an input unit for receiving, as inputs, arbitrary position information, arbitrary horizontal size information and arbitrary vertical size information of said motion image frame, and a motion image frame forming unit for forming said motion image frame on said monitor based on said position information, said horizontal size information, and said vertical size information, wherein said motion image display unit includes a first calculating unit for calculating a horizontal zoom magnification of said motion image based on the horizontal size of said monitor frame and the horizontal size of said motion image frame, a second calculating unit for calculating a vertical zoom magnification of said motion image based on the vertical size of said monitor frame and the vertical size of said motion image frame, a zoom processing unit for performing reduction zoom processing on said motion image based on said horizontal zoom magnification and said vertical zoom magnification, and a reduced image display unit displaying a reduced motion image reduced by said zoom processing unit in said motion image frame.