Patent ID: 7176964

Claim:
An electronic still camera comprising: an image pickup unit which picks up an object image to generate a frame image, the image pickup unit having a single pickup mode of picking up the object image to generate a single frame image, and a continuous pickup mode of picking up the object image continuously to generate a plurality of continuous frame images, the continuous pickup mode including a plurality of continuous pickup modes, each continuous pickup mode being different from a mode designating an output television scheme; a display unit which displays the frame image; and a controller which controls the display unit to display the frame image in a display manner specialized to the pickup mode in which the frame image is generated, wherein the display manner specialized to the single pickup mode is to display in a format of a single frame image, and the display manner specialized to the continuous pickup mode is to display in a format of a plurality of continuous frame images at the same time, when a total number of the plurality of continuous frame images is less than or equal to an X number of frame images, the total number of the plurality of continuous frame images are displayed in single display of the display unit in a format of X frame images, and when the total number of the plurality of continuous frame images is greater than X number of frame images, the total number of the plurality of continuous frame images are displayed in continuous frame order via multiple displays of the display unit in the format of X frame images, each of the multiple displays in the format of X frame images is displayed at a specified interval.