Patent ID: 7193646

Claim:
A digital camera, having a normal image pickup mode in which images of an object are picked up one by one, a continuous image pickup mode in which images of an object are picked up continuously, a normally picked up image reproduction mode in which an image picked up in said normal image pickup mode is reproduced and a continuously picked up image reproduction mode in which an image picked up in said continuous image pickup mode is reproduced, comprising: memory unit storing an image; display unit for displaying an image; first writing unit for storing each image picked up in said normal image pickup mode in said memory unit; second writing unit classifying into groups and storing in said memory unit a plurality of images picked up in said continuous image pickup mode, session by session; first selecting unit selecting, in said normally picked up image reproduction mode, a desired image among images stored in said memory unit; second selecting unit selecting, in said continuously picked up image reproduction mode, a desired image group among image groups stored in said memory unit, and a desired image among a plurality of images belonging to the image group; and first reading unit taking out the image selected by said first and second selecting units from said memory unit and applying the image to said display unit, wherein said display unit does not simultaneously display both reduced images obtained from the normal pickup mode and the continuous image pickup mode on one screen, said second writing unit forms a reduced image of each image and stores the reduced image together with each image to said memory unit, said digital camera further comprising: third selecting unit selecting, in said continuously picked up image reproduction mode, a predetermined number of reduced images among reduced images of predetermined images in respective image groups stored in said memory unit; and second reading unit for reading the prescribed number of reduced images selected by said third selecting unit from said memory unit, forming an image of one image plane from said predetermined number of reduced images, and applying the image to said display unit, wherein said first selecting unit has at least three direction designating sections for moving a state of display in at least three directions including a first direction, a second direction opposite the first direction and a third direction different from said first and second directions indicating a selected image to a single desired reduced image to be displayed among a plurality of reduced images displayed by said display unit, and wherein said second selecting unit selects said image group by selecting a single desired reduced image to be displayed from the predetermined number of reduced images displayed on said display unit.