Patent ID: 8537243

Claim:
A display control apparatus comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive an image-taking instruction from a release button; a control unit configured to generate image data using output signal of an image-pickup device in accordance with the image-taking instruction received by the receiving unit and record the image data in a recording medium; a setting unit configured to set an ordinary mode in which single image data is generated in accordance with one time image-taking instruction by once operating the release button and a bracket mode in which a plurality of image data are generated in accordance with one time image-taking instruction by once operating the release button, the number of image data generated in the bracket mode being a predetermined number; a detecting unit configured to detect remaining capacity of the recording medium; a predicting unit configured to predict data amount of single image data; a first calculating unit configured to calculate remaining number of image data to be recorded in the recording medium based on the remaining capacity of the recording medium and the predicted data amount of single image data; a second calculating unit configured to calculate remaining number of the image-taking instructions to be received by the receiving unit based on the remaining capacity of the recording medium, the predicted data amount of single image data, and the predetermined number of image data; a display control unit configured to control so as to display the remaining number of image data when the ordinary mode is set and display the remaining number of the image-taking instructions when the bracket mode is set, wherein in the bracket mode, the remaining number of image-taking instructions corresponds to a remaining number of single operations of the release button to generate the predetermined number of image data.