Patent ID: 8520116

Claim:
A photographing apparatus comprising: an imaging device that converts light of an image into an electrical signal; an image conversion unit that converts the electrical signal into image data; a scene recognition unit that recognizes the type of a scene to be photographed by analyzing the image data; a display unit that, responsive to the recognition of the type of the scene, presents a user interface to enable a user to selectively lock a shooting condition that corresponds to the recognized type of the scene; a user input unit that enables the user to manipulate the user interface to indicate whether the shooting condition that corresponds to the recognized type of the scene should be locked or not; and a condition setting unit that locks the shooting condition as a shooting mode corresponding to the recognized type of the scene for photographing such that the shooting condition is fixed even when a type of a scene of a subject to be photographed is changed from the recognized type of the scene, according to the user input received via the user input unit; wherein the user input unit enables the user to manipulate the user interface to indicate that the shooting condition should be unlocked; and the condition setting unit unlocks the shooting condition as a shooting mode according to the user input indicating that the shooting condition should be unlocked.