Patent ID: 8917328

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a casing; and circuitry configured to detect whether a posture of the casing is a vertical posture, capture an image of a subject and output the captured image, transform the captured image into a horizontally and vertically transformed image with a same size as that of the captured image by rotating the captured image so as to reverse its horizontal and vertical sides and by reducing the captured image, and by adding black zones to the horizontally and vertically transformed image after reduction, record the captured image after transformation, and generate the image data from the horizontally and vertically transformed image instead of the captured image, when the posture of the casing is the vertical posture, wherein the circuitry detects whether the posture of the casing is a reverse posture and rotates by 180 degrees the image data of one of the captured image and horizontally and vertically transformed image, when the posture of the casing is the reverse posture, and the circuitry is further configured to output the captured image to an external display apparatus, and output the horizontally and vertically transformed image instead of the captured image, when the posture of the casing is the vertical posture.