Image pickup device and image pickup method

Abstract

An image pickup device includes a camera, a display to display an image being obtained by the camera, and a touch panel that overlaps the display and is capable of detecting a flick operation performed on the touch panel. While the display displays the image being obtained by the camera, a brightness of the display is changed from a first brightness to a second brightness by a flick operation on the touch panel from down to up in a vertical direction. The second brightness is brighter than the first brightness. While the display displays the image being obtained by the camera, a setting other than a setting of the brightness of the display is changed by a flick operation on the touch panel from left to right in a lateral direction.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . An image pickup device comprising:
 a camera;   a display configured to display an image being obtained by the camera; and   a touch panel that overlaps the display, and is capable of detecting a flick operation performed on the touch panel,   wherein, while the display displays the image being obtained by the camera, a brightness of the display is changed from a first brightness to a second brightness by a flick operation on the touch panel from down to up in a vertical direction, the second brightness being brighter than the first brightness, and   wherein, while the display displays the image being obtained by the camera, a setting other than a setting of the brightness of the display is changed by a flick operation on the touch panel from left to right in a lateral direction.