Patent ID: 7480003

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus comprising: an image pickup device that picks up an image of a subject and converts the image to an image pickup signal; a display device that displays a picked-up image based on the image pickup signal outputted from said image pickup device; a selecting device that selects at least one from a plurality of focus detecting regions on a screen of said display device; an extracting device that extracts a focus signal from the image pickup signal in the at least one focus detecting region selected by said selecting device; a focus adjusting device that carries out focus adjustment on said image pickup device based on the focus signal extracted by said extracting device; an operating element that enables a photographer to instruct to change the at least one focus detecting region selected by said selecting device; and a confirming device that confirms the at least one focus detecting region instructed to change by the photographer using said operating element when a predetermined condition is satisfied, wherein said image pickup device is capable of picking up the image of the subject with zooming, and the predetermined condition is that a zooming operation has been started by said pickup device.