Patent ID: 6961509

Claim:
An image apparatus equipped with facility for reading out first image data from a recording medium and processing said first image data to thereby derive therefrom second image data for generating a zoomed-in picture by magnifying a partial area of a picture on said first image data, said image apparatus comprising: a zoom key and a plurality of at least 3×3 zoom-in area designating keys disposed at least on either one of a main body of said image apparatus or a remote control unit therefor; a storage storing correspondence relations between said plurality of at least 3×3 zoom-in area designating keys and areas of the picture based on said first image data, respectively; and an image data processor generating said second image data in response to operation of said zoom key and generating second image data for a zoom-in area corresponding to a given one of said at least 3×3 zoom-in area designating keys in response to operation of said given one zoom-in area designating key, wherein relative locations of said plurality of at least 3×3 zoom-in area designating keys with respect to one another substantially correspond to relative locations of a plurality of specific at least 3×3 partial areas with respect to one another of a picture based on said first image data.