Patent ID: 7692691

Claim:
A digital camera comprising: an image capture unit; a memory unit configured to store a captured image, captured by said image capture unit, and character data that overlaps with the captured image; a display unit; a signal output unit configured to output a first superimposed image to an external device; a first superimposing unit configured to output the first superimposed image to the external device, through said signal output unit, by superimposing the captured image and the character data read out from said memory unit; and a second superimposing unit configured to output a second superimposed image to said display unit by superimposing the captured image and the character data read out from said memory unit, wherein said first superimposing unit and said second superimposing unit superimpose the captured image and the character data without rotation, when the captured image is captured without inclining the digital camera, and wherein said first superimposing unit generates the first superimposed image by rotating the captured image and not rotating the character data, when the captured image is captured with the digital camera in the vertical position, and wherein said second superimposing unit generates the second superimposed image by rotating the character data and not rotating the captured image, when the captured image is captured with the digital camera in the vertical position.