Patent ID: 7903164

Claim:
An image capturing apparatus for capturing an image comprising: an image capturing designation range acquiring unit for acquiring an image capturing designation range designated by a user; an image capturing unit for capturing an image including the image capturing designation range and a range wider than the image capturing designation range; a storing unit for storing information indicative of the image capturing designation range at a first data amount and storing information indicative of the image captured by the image capturing unit outside the image capturing designation range at least partly at a second data amount which is less than the first data amount; an image displaying unit for displaying at least an image within the image capturing designation range out of the captured image by making the user recognize the image capturing designation range, an image processing unit for performing an image processing on the captured image in order to make an amount of data of the portion of the image outside of the image capturing designation range be less than that of the portion of the image within the image capturing designation range out of the captured image, and an ideal composition detecting unit for detecting an ideal composition range in which the captured image is ideally composed, and which includes an area that is not a part of said image capturing designation range, wherein said image processing unit performs an image processing on the captured image to make the amount of data of the portion of the image outside of either of the image capturing designation range or the ideal composition range to be less than that of the portion of the image within at least one of the image capturing designation range and the ideal composition range, and said storing unit stores information indicative of the ideal composition range further corresponding to the captured image, and wherein the information indicative of the image capturing designation range stored at the first data amount does not overlap the information indicative of the image captured by the image capturing unit outside the image capturing designation range stored at the second data amount.