Patent ID: 7493037

Claim:
A digital stereo camera/digital stereo video camera which is provided with a pair of left and right photographing optical systems, one or two image capture devices which individually receive a pair of images through the pair of photographing optical systems, a pair of left and right electronic displays which individually display a pair of images projected on the one or two image capture devices in an erecting manner, and an eyepiece lens, comprising: a unit that, when photographed images are displayed on the pair of left and right electronic display, sets aspect ratios of images projected on the one or two image capture devices to be narrower than aspect ratios of image display regions on the electronic displays to perform displaying while masking one portion of the images on the one or two image capture devices; a manual scrolling unit that horizontally scrolls images on the pair of left and right electronic displays symmetrically regarding the left and right to change an spacing between equal subject images on the left and right image display regions; and a unit that saves image data equal to a display image horizontally scrolled arbitrarily as a set of stereo image data elements and a unit that outputs the set of stereo image data elements externally.