Abstract: An image pickup apparatus capable of creating various composite images easily, and also obtaining composite images such as would be obtained at different shutter speeds even after the frame images were picked up. Successive frame images of an object are picked up in a successive image-pickup mode at predetermined time intervals. The predetermined number of frame images obtained are then stored in time series in a buffer memory. Pointers indicating composition start and end positions slidable on a bar of a range selector specify therebetween a composition range in which some successive ones of the predetermined number of frame images fall on a composing picture. The respective frame images falling in the specified range are read from the buffer memory and processed, thereby producing a composite image. In this case, by changing the composition range with the range selector, a composite image such as would be obtained at a different shutter speed is displayed on a composite result display picture.

Abstract: In a portable telephone, a sensor constructed of, for example, a 3-axial acceleration sensor is built in the vicinity of a display unit which is provided on a main body of the portable telephone. When a user moves the display unit along a vertical direction (Z-axis direction) with respect to a display screen thereof while the user holds the appliance main body, the sensor senses both a move direction and a move amount of the display unit, and thus, information displayed on the display screen of the display unit is enlarged, or compressed in display magnification defined in response to the sensed move amount. As a result, a display size of the information displayed on the display screen can be changed in such a manner that the user may have such a natural feeling achieved by moving a magnifying glass.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus capable of creating various composite images easily, and also obtaining composite images such as would be obtained at different shutter speeds even after the frame images were picked up. Successive frame images of an object are picked up in a successive image-pickup mode at predetermined time intervals. The predetermined number of frame images obtained are then stored in time series in a buffer memory. Pointers indicating composition start and end positions slidable on a bar of a range selector specify therebetween a composition range in which some successive ones of the predetermined number of frame images fall on a composing picture. The respective frame images falling in the specified range are read from the buffer memory and processed, thereby producing a composite image. In this case, by changing the composition range with the range selector, a composite image such as would be obtained at a different shutter speed is displayed on a composite result display picture.

Abstract: In a portable telephone, a sensor constructed of, for example, a 3-axial acceleration sensor is built in the vicinity of a display unit which is provided on a main body of the portable telephone. When a user moves the display unit along a vertical direction (Z-axis direction) with respect to a display screen thereof while the user holds the appliance main body, the sensor senses both a move direction and a move amount of the display unit, and thus, information displayed on the display screen of the display unit is enlarged, or compressed in display magnification defined in response to the sensed move amount. As a result, a display size of the information displayed on the display screen can be changed in such a manner that the user may have such a natural feeling achieved by moving a magnifying glass.