Patent ID: 8705878

Claim:
An imaging apparatus, comprising: an imaging unit configured to image a subject having character information and output an imaged picture; a picture recording unit configured to record the imaged picture; a playback unit configured to play back the recorded picture recorded in the picture recording unit; a character information detection unit configured to detect character information from the imaged picture outputted by the imaging unit and recognize a character string as a candidate label from the detected character information; a display control unit configured to display the recorded picture played back by the playback unit and the imaged picture outputted from the imaging unit on the same screen; and a character information association unit configured to receive a user selection of the candidate label and to then associate the selected label as a searchable element in a picture management database with the recorded picture displayed on the same screen, wherein the recorded picture and the associated label are displayed simultaneously in separate areas on the same screen, and the imaging of the subject, the detection of the character information from the imaged picture, and the selection of the candidate label are each caused by the user to be carried out using a same switch in the imaging apparatus.