Patent ID: 7982791

Claim:
A camera comprising: a visibility improvement section which corrects an image signal of a subject acquired from an image pickup device so that luminance of the image signal is raised in accordance with luminance of each of divided regions of the subject in order to improve visibility of the subject; a display section which displays an image based on the image signal of the subject acquired from the image pickup device; a scene judgment section which judges a whether scene is a backlight scene or not; a control section which controls the visibility improvement section; and a face detecting section which detects a face of the subject, wherein the visibility improvement section sets a correction amount of the luminance of an actually photographed image to be smaller than that of an image for monitoring to be displayed in the display section, wherein the control section effects the visibility improvement section, when the scene judgment section judges that the subject is the backlight scene, and wherein when the face detecting section detects the face, the control section prohibits the effect of the visibility improvement section, even in a case where the subject is the backlight scene.