Patent ID: 8018517

Claim:
An image capture apparatus comprising: an image capture device operable to capture an image and output an image signal corresponding to the captured image; a display device operable to display an image, the display device being rotatably coupled to the image capture device such that the display device can rotate between first and second positions; a reversing device operable to generate a mirror image of the captured image from the image signal responsive to the display device being in the second position; and a controller generating a first image by superimposing a character information not being reversed on the captured image from the image signal, which is not mirror-processed by the reversing device, and controlling the display device to display the first image responsive to the display device being in the first position, and generating a second image by superimposing the character information on the mirror image reversed by the reversing device and controlling the display device to display the second image responsive to the display device being in the second position, wherein both the character information superimposed responsive to the display device being in the first position and the character information superimposed responsive to the display device being in the second position are not reversed in a direction that is rotational about a vertical axis on the display device until they are superimposed by the controller.