Patent ID: 7639300

Claim:
An imaging device for producing an electrical image signal obtained by converting an optical image of a subject, the imaging device comprising: a display unit for displaying an image on the basis of said image signal; an imaging optical system for forming the optical image of the subject; an imaging unit for receiving the optical image formed by said imaging optical system to convert the optical image into the electrical image signal; a posture detector for detecting a posture of said imaging device in shooting; a recording unit for recording a reduced image of the shot image obtained by said imaging unit, and posture information on the posture of said imaging device, the posture being detected by said posture detector and corresponding to the reduced image; an image extracting unit for extracting reduced images recorded on said recording unit; and an image display controller for reconstructing, on the basis of said posture information, a horizontal and vertical direction of said reduced images extracted by said image extracting unit to said posture of said imaging device in shooting, and for causing said display unit to display said reconstructed reduced images, wherein, in the case where a direction along a short side of said display unit is defined as a first direction and a direction along a long side of said display unit is defined as a second direction, said image display controller controls said display unit such that: a dimension in the first direction of a reduced image, whose dimension in the first direction is larger than a dimension in a second direction, is larger than a dimension in the first direction of a reduced image whose dimension in the first direction is smaller than a dimension in the second direction, and a dimension in the second direction of the reduced image, whose dimension in the first direction is larger than the dimension in the second direction, is different from the dimension in the first direction of the reduced image whose dimension in the first direction is smaller than a dimension in the second direction.