Patent ID: 7920205

Claim:
An image capturing apparatus having an image pickup section for picking up a subject to produce an image, said image capturing apparatus comprising: a face detecting section for detecting a position and a size of a face of a person in said image; a flash device having an LED array as a light source, said LED array having two-dimensionally arranged LEDs therein; a control section for controlling said flash device, said control section selectively illuminating said LEDs based on a detection result of said face detecting section so as to control a projection area of a flash light; a photometry section for performing multi-metering to measure brightness of said subject, wherein said control section selectively illuminates said LEDs based on said detection result of said face detecting section and a metering result of said photometry section so as to control said projection area and intensity of said flash light; wherein said LEDs are a plurality of red LEDs, green LEDs and blue LEDs arranged such that said LEDs having same color do not lie adjacent to each other in said LED array, and wherein said LED array is divided into a plurality of groups, each of which separately illuminates one of divided projection areas in said subject in accordance with said metering result, said groups each having same number of said red LEDs, said green LEDs and said blue LEDs.