Patent ID: 8417109
Filing Date: 2013-04-09
Classification: G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A photographing device, comprising: a photographing section; a display section that displays a photography image taken by the photographing section on a display screen; person indicator setting means for setting a person indicator prepared in advance on the display screen; an operation section that operates a target position and/or a target size of the person indicator; person detection means for detecting a position and/or a size of a person in the photography image; comparison means for comparing the detected position and/or the detected size of the person in the photography image with the target position and/or the target size; guiding instruction means for generating an instruction for the person to be photographed to guide toward a direction coinciding with a comparison result by the comparison means; and control means for controlling the photographing section such that, at a time when a predetermined condition is satisfied after the comparison result by the comparison means falls within a predetermined allowable error, a shutter is activated, wherein the control means sets an allowable error in a vertical direction larger than that in a horizontal direction, at the time of determining whether the detected position of the person is matched with the target position.