Patent ID: 7907199

Claim:
An image input apparatus comprising: an optical system which forms an image of a subject; an image pickup unit which converts the formed subject image to image data; an image capture guide list input unit which receives input of an image capture guide list, through which image capture guide lists each including at least one of image titles representing targets to be recorded are input; a storage unit which stores at least one said image capture guide list input through said image capture guide list input unit; a display device which displays information on its screen; an image capture guide list display unit which displays a list of said at least one image capture guide list stored in the storage unit on the screen of said display device; an image capture guide list selection unit which receives selection of one image capture guide list from said list of the at least one image capture guide list displayed on the screen of said display device; an image title display unit which displays the image title(s) included in the image capture guide list selected by said image capture guide list selection unit from the list of the at least one image capture guide list stored in said storage unit on the screen of said display device; and an image title selection unit which selects one of the image titles displayed on the screen of said display device, wherein when an image title is selected from the image capture guide list by said image title selection unit and the data for this title is recorded, said image title display unit displays a checkmark for a corresponding image title and displays a number of shot images for the image title, and when shooting of all images for the image titles displayed on the screen of said display device has not been completed, said image title display unit again displays the image title in the image capture guide list on the screen of said display device along with the checkmark for the corresponding image title and the number of shot images for the image title.