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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2009
Filed:
May. 12, 2004
Applicant:
Tatsuro Abe, Ome, JP;
Inventor:
Tatsuro Abe, Ome, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/222 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides a digital camera that has an EVF, an LCD screen, a switching unit, and display-state restoring unit. The switching unit switches display to the EVF or the LCD screen in accordance with an input signal. The display-state restoring unit automatically restores the EVF and the LCD screen to states that they assume before the switching unit switches the display, when a process initiated by the input signal is completed.