Patent ID: 8094228

Claim:
An image taking apparatus, comprising: a display device provided on at least one surface of an apparatus body; a touch panel of a substantially same shape as the display device and provided on a front surface of the display device; an image capture device which acquires an image of a subject; . an extraction device which extracts, from the image acquired by the image capture device, an image to be recorded, based on a user input; a display control device which, when the extracted image to be recorded is recorded as a switch image for use as an operations device, causes the display device to display the recorded switch image extracted by the extraction device, the display control device causing the display device to display an original switch image recorded in advance, when the user does not record the switch image, as the operations device; a detection device which detects inputs to the touch panel, the detection device detecting an input to a region overlaying a region at which the switch image is displayed by the display control unit; and a control device which, when an input is detected by the detection device, executes a predetermined operation that has been set in advance for a switch represented by the switch image.