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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2006
Eiri Tsukatani, Tokyo, JP;
Eiri Tsukatani, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In order to display help information at the time when each of a self-timer button, an illumination button, AE lock button and the like is operated, an image pickup apparatus displays help information with understandable wording by the use of simple terms in consideration of the possibility that the user is not proficient in camera operations in the case that the apparatus operates in a full-automatic mode or a photographing mode of an image zone, and displays help information with concise and easily recognizable wording inclusive of technical terms in accordance with necessity in consideration of the possibility that the user is proficient in camera operations to a certain extent in the case that the apparatus operates in a photographing mode of a creative zone.