Patent Document ID: 8896741
Application ID: 12689400
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A photographing device to photograph an object comprising: a displaying unit to display an image acquired from the object; an image recording unit to record the image acquired from the object; a focus state notifying unit to notify focal distance information that is representative of a focused state of the image acquired from the object; an enlargement instructing unit to give an enlargement instruction on the image acquired from the object in response to a user selection of an input key that is displayed in response to a shift to one photographing mode of a close-up photographing mode, a long-distance photographing mode and a portrait photographing mode; an enlarged image generating unit to compare the focal distance information notified by the focus state notifying unit with usage distance of the one photographing mode, to determine whether the one photographing mode is available based on a result of comparison of the focal distance information with the usage distance, to shift to the one photographing mode and enable the enlargement instructing unit when the one photographing mode is available, and by the enlargement instruction of the enlargement instructing unit, to extract a portion or whole of the image acquired from the object, which is displayed on the displaying unit, to generate an enlarged image from the portion or whole; and a display control unit to display the enlarged image within the image acquired from the object in an overlapped manner with the image acquired from the object, before capturing the image acquired from the object into the image recording unit.