Patent attributes
An image pickup device includes at least one camera, a display, and a touch panel that overlaps the display, and detects a flick operation in at least first and second directions substantially opposite to each other. The image pickup device has at least a first, second and third imaging modes, in which the display displays a video image being obtained by the at least one camera. Switching to the second imaging mode occurs by a first flick operation in the first direction in the first imaging mode. Switching to the first imaging mode occurs by a second flick operation in the second direction in the second imaging mode. Switching to the third imaging mode occurs by a third flick operation in the first direction in the first imaging mode. Switching to the first imaging mode occurs by a fourth flick operation in the second direction in the third imaging mode.