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Patent No.:

US 7274400 B1

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Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2007

Filed:

Jan. 25, 2001
Applicants:

Manabu Hyodo, Asaka, JP;

Yoshiharu Gotanda, Asaka, JP;

Inventors:

Manabu Hyodo, Asaka, JP;

Yoshiharu Gotanda, Asaka, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/222 (2006.01);
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CPC ...
Abstract

A digital camera has a plurality of shooting modes such as a day scenic shooting mode, a night scenic shooting mode and a person shooting mode and displays a composition assist frame selected from a plurality of composition assist frames on a liquid crystal monitor to assist composition. If a user sets the person shooting mode by a mode dial, one or more composition assist frames that are suitable for a person shooting are extracted from the plurality of the composition assist frames, and the user selects one of the extracted composition assist frames by a left key and a right key of a cross key. Therefore, the appropriate composition assist frame can be automatically or easily selected.


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