Patent ID: 8643749

Claim:
An imaging device comprising: an imaging unit that receives light coming from a subject and thus generates electronic image data; a display unit that displays an image corresponding to the image data; an angle-of-view setting unit that sets an angle of view to be changed for the image displayed by the display unit according to a first signal input from the outside; and a control unit that starts control of change to a predetermined angle of view, set by the angle-of-view setting unit, according to a second signal different from the first signal and output from the outside, starts the change of angle of view to the predetermined angle of view set, according to the second signal, if the angle of view has been set by the angle of view setting unit according to the first signal, and changes the angle of view by an amount corresponding to the second signal if the angle of view had not been set by the angle-of-view setting unit according to the first signal.