Patent ID: 6943841

Claim:
A digital camera comprising: a lever capable of being rotated through a prescribed angle; a mode setting unit for setting an imaging mode or a playback mode in accordance with rotation of said lever; an imaging unit for sensing the image of a subject in response to setting of the imaging mode by said mode setting unit and outputting image data representing the image of the subject; a first display controller for controlling a display unit so as to display the image of the subject represented by the image data output from said image sensing unit; a playback-frame decision unit for deciding a playback frame in accordance with rotation of the lever if the playback mode has been set by said mode setting unit; a playback unit for reading image data of the playback frame, which has been decided by said playback-frame decision unit, from a recording medium and subjecting the image data to playback processing; a second display controller for controlling the display unit so as to display an image represented by image data that has been reproduced by said playback unit; a reading unit for reading image data that has been recorded on the recording medium; a third display controller for controlling the display unit so as to display a thumbnail image of an image represented by the image data read by said reading unit; a fourth display controller for controlling the display unit so as to display an image of a blank frame when image data can be recorded on the recording medium; and a designating unit for designating the thumbnail image or the image of the blank frame in accordance with rotation of the lever; wherein said mode setting unit is set to the playback mode in response to designation of the thumbnail image by said designating unit and is set to the imaging mode in response to designation of the image of the blank frame by said designating unit.