Patent ID: 8373766

Claim:
An image shooting device comprising: a flash component that emits light toward a subject; an image shooting component that outputs, for dimming, two sets of image data including non-flash image data that is obtained by shooting the subject without emitting light by the flash component, and flash image data that is obtained by shooting the subject with emitting light by the flash component, each of the sets of image data comprising target region image data that correspond to a detection target region that includes the subject; a shift detector that detects a shift amount, between subject positions in the non-flash image data and the flash image data, the shift amount indicating a shift that has arisen due to shaking of the image shooting device; a controller that, on the basis of the shift amount detected by the shift detector, corrects at least one of the non-flash image data or the flash image data, such that positions of the detection target region with respect to the subject position of the non-flash image data and the flash image data are substantially matched; a brightness detector that detects brightness levels from the target region image data of the non-flash image data and the flash image data; a flash amount determining component that determines a flash amount of the flash component on the basis of the detected brightness level of the non-flash image data and the flash image data; and further comprising a prohibiting component that prohibits correction of the detection target region by the controller when the image shooting component outputs the two sets of image data in which the shift of the subject position therein has been corrected on the basis of the shift amount detected by the shift detector.