Patent ID: 7643080

Claim:
An image pick-up apparatus comprising: an image display unit for displaying an image; an image pick-up unit for performing an image pick-up operation to generate an image of an object; a first display control unit for displaying on the image display unit a first frame together with a through image of the object generated by the image pick-up unit; a photography control unit for controlling the image pick-up operation to be performed by the image pick-up unit to obtain a photographed image of the object; a second display control unit for displaying on the image display unit one of the first frame and a second frame together with the photographed image of the object obtained by the photography control unit, a storing unit for storing an image; a trimmed image producing unit for trimming portions of the photographed image of the object defined by the frame displayed by the second display control unit, thereby producing a trimmed image from the photographed image of the object displayed on the image display unit; a record control unit for recording on the storing unit the trimmed image produced by the trimmed image producing unit; and a display language obtaining unit for obtaining a display language which has been set to the image pick-up apparatus, wherein the trimmed image producing unit produces trimmed images each having one of an aspect ratio and size which is automatically determined according to the display language obtained by the display language obtaining unit.