Patent ID: 7668451

Claim:
An image taking system comprising: an image taking means which takes an image of an object to be taken and generates image data, an objective body detecting means which detects at least a predetermined objective body from the image data, an exposure determining means which determines exposure for each of the detected objective bodies, a focusing position determining means which determines a focusing position for each of the detected objective bodies, and an image taking control means which causes the image taking means to take an image of each objective body according to the exposure and the focusing position determined for each of the detected objective bodies and stores image data of each objective body generated by the relevant image taking in a storage means in response to one image-taking action, wherein the storage means is for temporarily storing the image data, and comprises a display means which displays an image representing the image data temporarily stored in the storage means, an input means which inputs whether the displayed image is to be stored, and a storage means which stores only image data corresponding to the displayed image which is input as to be stored, and wherein the display means displays multiple images stored in the storage means temporarily, and an image not to be further stored as indicated by the input means is automatically deleted from the storage means.