Patent ID: 8254771
Filing Date: 2012-08-28
Classification: G03B,G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image taking apparatus which records an image captured by an image pickup device in a recording medium in response to an image recording instruction, the image taking apparatus comprising: a mode setting device which sets a group photographing mode; a template recording device which is recorded with a plurality of group photographing templates with different distributions of the faces of persons; a selection device which selects a template for use in the group photographing mode; a detection device which detects positions and sizes of faces of persons from an image captured by the image pickup device in the group photographing mode; and an image processing device which cuts out an image having a substantially the same composition as a distribution of the faces of the persons in the template selected by the selection device from the image captured by the image pickup device based on the detection result of the detection device in the group photographing mode, wherein the image cut out by the image processing device is recorded in the recording medium in the group photographing mode.