Patent ID: 7561748

Claim:
An electronic camera comprising: an image capturing section which captures a subject and generates image data; a display section which combines, for display, image data for monitoring and an auxiliary display, the image data for monitoring being captured by said image capturing section, the auxiliary display being for supporting a selection of at least one of an ROI region and a tile to be used in image compression; a compression processing section which selects, for at least one of the ROI region and tile, an image region which is preset in accordance with the auxiliary display, and thereafter compresses image data for recording captured by said image capturing section; and a guide section which determines a guide display to show a recommended composition, according to a kind of a photographic subject a user selects, wherein: said display section combines, for display, the image data for monitoring captured by said image capturing section and the guide display; and said compression processing section selects, for at least one of the ROI region and tile to be used in image compression, an image region which is preset in accordance with the guide display, and thereafter compresses the image data for recording captured by said image capturing section.