Patent ID: 8098287

Claim:
A handheld single-housing portable digital camera comprising: a first photographing system and a second photographing system which are integrally provided in the digital camera and each of the systems respectively photograph same subject; a changeover switch which selects one of said first and second photographing systems for photographing the subject; a display control unit which displays an image formed by one photographing system determined by said changeover switch, and which performs a display control so as to display information other than the formed image along with the formed image; and a display unit that comprises a main-region and a sub-region, wherein the display control unit displays the image formed by the photographing system selected by the changeover switch at the main-region, and displays the image formed by the other photographing system at the sub-region, wherein the first and second photographing systems respectively comprise a focal lens and a focus adjustment unit that performs auto focusing, and the display control unit further displays onto the formed image indications of a result of focus adjustment by the auto focusing and a focusing range, wherein said display control unit performs the display control so as to display image information which is the information other than said formed image, and which represents an image formed by the photographing system other than the photographing system determined by said changeover switch, and wherein the indications of the result of the focus adjustment by the auto focusing comprises an indication of whether or not the auto focusing is successful or not, and the indications of the result of the focusing range comprise an indication of a range of the subject on which the focus is directed as a result of the auto focusing.