Patent Document ID: 20040012702
Application ID: 10612036
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A camera apparatus comprising: a photographing section for taking a picture of a subject to obtain an image; a display section for displaying the image obtained by the photographing section in a standby state; a storing section for storing the above image in response to photographing operation; an image synthesizing section for synthesizing an image representing composition of the image obtained by the photographing section and an position specifying image representing a predetermined position to obtain a synthesized image; a composition data storing section for storing composition data relating to a composition indicating image in which the position specifying image takes a position in the synthesized image, which position is desired by a user; and a display control section for successively synthesizing, in recognition by a photographer in a standby state in a photographing mode, the image obtained by the photographing section with composition indicating image based on the composition data stored in the composition data storing section to make a synthesized image, and for displaying on the display section the synthesized image as an image to be obtained.