Patent ID: 8373760

Claim:
An image capturing device, comprising: an image capturing unit for capturing an image of a subject; a registration unit for newly registering subject information for identifying the subject in the image, and photography conditions or image processing conditions corresponding to the subject identified according to the subject information; a storage unit for storing the subject information, and the photography conditions or the image processing conditions, newly registered by the registration unit, to be in association with one another, as subject-related information; a characteristic portion detection unit for detecting a characteristic portion of a subject in an image captured by the image capturing unit; a subject identification unit for identifying the subject corresponding to the characteristic portion detected by the characteristic portion detection unit, by referring to the subject information stored in the storage unit; a condition acquisition unit for acquiring, from the storage unit, the photography conditions or the image processing conditions corresponding to the subject identified by the subject identification unit; and a control unit for carrying out image capturing by the image capturing unit based on the photography conditions acquired by the condition acquisition unit, or for causing image processing to be carried out on a captured image based on the image processing conditions acquired by the condition acquisition unit, wherein the storage unit stores the subject-related information as subject-related information corresponding to the image capturing device itself, and wherein the image capturing device further comprises: a communication unit for communicating with another image capturing device; and a transmission unit for transmitting the subject-related information corresponding to the image capturing device itself to the other image capturing device via the communication unit.