Patent Document ID: 9241112
Application ID: 14330679
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging unit that captures an image of a subject to continuously generate electronic image data of the subject; an image data storing unit that stores the image data generated by the imaging unit; a display unit that displays the image corresponding to the image data generated by the imaging unit; a shooting mode setting unit that sets a shooting mode to either one of a normal shooting mode and a slow motion shooting mode whose frame rate is higher than that of the normal shooting mode; a display control unit that controls the display unit to sequentially display, at a frame rate of the shooting mode set by the shooting mode setting unit, the images corresponding to the image data generated by the imaging unit in time sequence and display information related to a special effect which can be combined with the shooting mode set by the shooting mode setting unit; a special effect image generating unit that generates a special effect image by applying the special effect to the image; and an advisability information storing unit that stores advisability information for assigning an advisability corresponding to a combination of the special effect which the special effect image generating unit applies to the image and the shooting mode; wherein the display control unit controls the display unit to display information related to the special effect which the special effect image generating unit needs to apply to the image in accordance with the advisability information stored in the advisability information storing unit.