Patent ID: 7860321

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus, comprising: an image pickup unit for picking up an object image; a recording unit for recording image data obtained by the image pickup unit onto a recording medium; a display unit selectively displaying an image related to any one of the image data obtained by the image pickup unit and the image data recorded on the recording medium on a display apparatus; an image thinning-out unit for comparing a rate at the time of photographing of the image to be displayed by the display unit and a display rate in the display apparatus and if the rate at the time of photographing is higher than the display rate, thinning out the image to be displayed by the display unit, at a predetermined interval to lower the rate, thereby generating a display image of a rate lower than the display rate; and a rate conversion unit for inserting repeatedly output images to the display image generated by the image thinning-out unit to increase the rate of the display image so that the rate of the display image is made equal to the display rate.