Patent ID: 8022961

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus which can display an image on a predetermined display area whose aspect ratio is different from that of said image, comprising: a first resizing unit adapted to obtain a first resized image by resizing the entirety of said image using a larger magnification out of a first magnification and a second magnification, the first magnification being for matching the size of the entirety of said image in a horizontal direction with the size of said display area in the horizontal direction and the second magnification being for matching the size of the entirety of said image in a vertical direction with the size of said display area in the vertical direction, the vertical direction being a direction different from the horizontal direction; a second resizing unit adapted to obtain a second resized image by resizing said image using a magnification smaller than the other magnification of said first magnification and said second magnification; a determination unit adapted to, in accordance with a currently-set display mode for the image pickup apparatus in displaying the image, automatically determine whether (i) to perform scrolling display wherein a partial area, whose size in the first direction matches the size of the display area in the first direction, of the first resized image is displayed on the display area while scrolling the first resized image only in a second direction in which the size of the entirety of the first resized image in the second direction does not match the size of the display area in the second direction, or (ii) to perform full-screen display wherein the entirety of said second resized image being displayed without said first resized image being displayed; and a display control unit adapted to perform said scrolling display or said full-screen display in accordance with the determination by the determination unit, wherein the determination unit performs said automatic determination based on whether or not said currently-set display mode is a REC review display mode for displaying a picked up image immediately after the image is picked up, wherein the determination unit determines to perform said full-screen display, not said scrolling display, if the currently-set display mode is the REC review display mode, and wherein the determination unit determines to perform said scrolling display if the currently-set display mode is a predetermined display mode other than the REC review display mode.