Patent ID: 8610791

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus comprising: an image pickup section to pick up a subject; a plurality of persons detecting section to detect a plurality of persons in the subject to be picked up by the image pickup section; an automatic photographing condition setting section to select a plurality of automatic photographing conditions for each of the plurality of persons detected by the plurality of persons detecting section among a plurality of kinds of selectable automatic photographing conditions which are settable by being selected, so as to set the automatic photographing conditions; an automatic photographing condition judging section to judge whether each of the automatic photographing conditions pertaining to the plurality of persons set by the automatic photographing condition setting section is satisfied by the subject or not; an image pickup state sequence display control section to obtain a degree based on a judgment result of each of the set automatic photographing conditions made by the automatic photographing condition judgment section, the degree indicating the judgment result with respect to a judgment standard for judging that the automatic photographing condition is satisfied, and to perform control to sequentially display the obtained degrees; and an automatic image pickup instruction control section to instruct the image pickup section to pick up the subject or to instruct that a subject image be recorded, when at least one of the set automatic photographing conditions pertaining to the plurality of persons is judged to be satisfied by the automatic photographing condition judging section.