Patent ID: 8582012

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: a first display panel that is mounted on an apparatus casing so as to display images in a direction towards a user; a second display panel that is mounted on the apparatus casing so as to display said images in a direction towards a subject; an imaging processor that performs a photoelectric conversion on incident light from the subject direction to obtain image signals; a person detector that detects whether or not a person is present in the subject direction; and a controller that allows said images based on the image signals obtained by the imaging processor to be displayed on the first display panel and controls an operation of displaying the images based on the image signals obtained by the imaging processor on the second display panel in accordance with at least the detection results of the person detector, wherein when the presence of a person is detected by the person detector and it is determined that a state of the person is appropriate for viewing of the second display panel by the person, the controller performs a control such that the images based on the image signals obtained by the imaging processor are displayed on the second display panel at a first brightness state, and when the presence of a person is detected by the person detector and it is determined that a state of the person is not appropriate for viewing of the second display panel by the person, the controller performs a control such that the images based on the image signals obtained by the imaging processor are displayed on the second display panel at a second brightness state that is lower than the first brightness state.