A camera system includes a display monitor which displays an image of an
object, taken by an optical unit, on a screen of the monitor. A reading
unit reads a preceding image and a current image among a plurality of
partially overlapping images, from a memory device, the preceding image
and the current image containing a common element. A determining unit
determines a positional relation between the preceding image and the
current image based on a common pattern derived from the common element
in the two adjacent images read by the reading unit. A displaying unit
displays an image indicating a boundary of the preceding image on the
screen of the monitor at a shifted position according to the positional
relation determined by the determining unit, with the current image
concurrently displayed on the screen of the monitor.