Patent ID: 7701491

Claim:
An image pickup device comprising: image pickup means for performing still-image photographing of a subject; record means for recording image data; photograph control means for controlling the image pickup means to perform the still-image photographing of the subject; generation means for automatically generating trimmed-image data from photographed-image data obtained by the photograph control means before the photographed-image data is recorded on the record means; record control means for recording the photographed-image data obtained by the photograph control means and the trimmed-image data generated by the generation means on the record means; display control means for making display means produce a through image of the subject, wherein the through image is imaged by the image pickup means, and wherein the display control means makes the display means produce at least one trimming-range frame which shows a range of at least one image for which the generation means generates the trimmed-image data; set means for setting the size of at least one image to be obtained by the photograph control means; and correspondence-table-record means for recording the image size and at least one of a size and a number of the at least one trimming-range frame, so that the image size and the at least one of the frame size and the frame number are associated with each other ; wherein the display control means makes the display means produce the at least one trimming-range frame such that the size and/or number of the at least one trimming-range frame agrees with the frame size and/or the frame number that is recorded by the correspondence-table-record means in association with the image size set by the set means.