Patent ID: 8787629

Claim:
An image capturing apparatus comprising: a face detection unit configured to detect a face of a person from an image; a storage unit configured to store dictionary data which holds information relating to faces and line-of-sight correction data corresponding to respective persons; an authentication unit configured to authenticate a person corresponding to the face detected by the face detection unit, using the information relating to faces in the dictionary data; a line-of-sight detection unit configured to detect information relating to a line of sight from the face detected by the face detection unit; a line-of-sight correction unit configured to correct the information relating to a line of sight detected by the line-of-sight detection unit, using the line-of-sight correction data in the dictionary data corresponding to the person authenticated by the authentication unit; a determination unit configured to determine whether a line of sight of a person serving as an object whose image is to be captured faces toward the image capturing apparatus, based on the information relating to a line of sight that is output from the line-of-sight correction unit; and an image capturing control unit configured control an execution of image capturing based on a result of the determination with the determination unit.