Patent ID: 7961218

Claim:
An image input apparatus comprising: an optical system which forms an image of a subject; an image pickup unit which converts the formed subject image to image data; a memory which temporarily stores the image data output from said image pickup unit; a storage control unit which stores the image data stored in said memory in a recording medium in a predetermined file format; a display device which displays information on a screen; a Web browsing unit which captures Web information for a Web page of a Web server, stores the Web information in said memory as display data, and displays the display data stored in said memory on the screen of said display device; a freehand memo information input unit through which freehand memo information including text information is input by a user, the freehand memo information being superimposed on the Web information captured from said Web server and stored in the memory; and a shutter release button through which a shooting operation is instructed, wherein when the shutter release button is operated, the display data stored in said memory, which is the Web information displayed on the screen of the display device, is recorded in said recording medium in the predetermined file format in a similar manner as the image data.