Patent ID: 8355053

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus, comprising: an image pickup unit configured to pick up an image of a subject; a detection unit that comprises at least one of a movement detection unit that detects movement of the subject from images that have been picked up by the image pickup unit and a shake detection unit that detects shake of the image pickup apparatus; a scene discrimination unit configured to perform scene discrimination based on: information that includes the results of detection by the detection unit, and an image that has been picked up by the image pickup unit; and an operating member configured to be operated by a user; wherein the scene discrimination unit is configured: to repeat, until the operating member is operated by the user, an operation of acquiring the results of detection from the detection unit and performing the scene discrimination based on the picked-up image and the acquired results of detection; to perform, while the operating member is being operated by the user, the scene discrimination based on the picked-up image and the results of detection acquired before the operating member is operated by the user; and to perform, when the user's operation of the operating member has ended, the scene discrimination based on the picked-up image and the results of detection acquired after the user's operation of the operating member has ended.