Patent ID: 8355050

Claim:
An image replay system including a digital camera and an image replay device, wherein: the digital camera and the image replay device are able to be connected together via a predetermined connection interface by cable connection or by wireless connection; the image replay device comprises: a control device; an image recording unit that acquires image information from the digital camera, and records it upon a recording medium; an image replay unit that replays the image information recorded upon the recording medium; an identification unit that identifies main photographic subject in an image that has been read down from the digital camera; and a transmission and reception unit that enables to transmit to digital camera usage condition data related to usage conditions of the image replay device when it has been detected that the digital camera has been connected via the connection interface; and the digital camera comprises: a data acquisition unit that acquires the usage condition data from the image replay device; a control unit that controls the digital camera, on the basis of the usage condition data that has been acquired by the data acquisition unit; an imaging element that outputs image data obtained by capturing an image of the photographic subject that is inputted to the control unit; an identification unit that identifies main photographic subject by detecting a face of the photographic subject that is present within the through image inputted from the imaging element and comparing with an information of facial registration data; and a transmission and reception unit that transmits image data and facial registration data to the image replay device when it has been detected that the image replay device has been connected via the connection interface, wherein: the usage condition data includes replay condition data that specifies the number of times, for each of the main photographic subjects that have been identified by the identification unit of the image replay device, that an image thereof has been replayed by the replay unit; and the control unit of the digital camera changes the settings of the digital camera during photography, on the basis of the usage condition data about the number of times that the image of each main photographic subject which is specified by the identification unit of the digital camera has been replayed by the replay unit of the image replay device.