Patent ID: 7881600

Claim:
A photographing device for photographing an object in a photographing area, comprising: an imaging device that successively captures images corresponding to said object; a display device; a first display processor that displays said successively captured images on said display device as a through image; a detection processor that repetitively conducts a detection process that detects a specific area, of the photographing area, within which a specific object is present; a first determination processor that determines the detected specific area to be a designated area; a second display processor that indicates a position of said designated area, in the through image; and a second determination processor that sets a substitute area as the detected specific area that has been last detected by said detection processor to be said designated area if said specific area is not detected in a repetition of the detection process, without an intervening different detection process; said second display processor continues to indicate the last detected specific area, which is said substitute area, in the through image when the specific area is not detected during a repetition of the detection process.