Patent ID: 8520112

Claim:
An image capturing apparatus comprising: a user input, which when operated causes a menu to be displayed; and display control means for displaying the menu upon press of the user input, the menu listing images representing selectable functions assignable to the user input, and changing a function assigned to the user input by changing display positions of all the images listed in the menu every time the user input is pressed, wherein the display control means further displays an arrow between each of the images listed in the menu, each arrow indicating an order of being highlighted by each press of the user input, the display control means further displays an explanation of the set value represented by the highlighted image in the form of text on the menu, said text not being displayed while the highlighted image is displayed during the changing of the display positions occurs in response to plural successive operations of the user input, and said text not being displayed until after a predetermined time has elapsed from a last one of the plural successive operations of the user input so that flickering of the text is not displayed.