DIGITAL CAMERA

• Main Author: UCHIDA MITSUAKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 04.07.2003
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a digital camera that can simply obtain an image on which a plurality of people are photographed. SOLUTION: When a shutter button is half-depressed, the digital camera performs photometry and range finding, drives a lens so as to focus an object and sets an aperture or the like (steps 100 to 104). When the shutter button is fully depressed, the digital camera photographs an object and outputs a photographed image to an LCD device in a finder when a two-shot mode is selected and the number of photographing times is a first time (steps 106 to 118). Thus, a user can visually confirms an image resulting from overlapping an image photographed at the first time with a light reflected from the object on a finder and can easily adjust a camera angle so that the respective images are nearly coincident with each other. When a second photographing is performed, the digital camera composes the object included in the first time photographing image with the second time photographing image so that the objects included in both the images are adjacent to each other. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO