Patent ID: 8432473

Claim:
An imaging apparatus, comprising: a storage unit configured to store attribute information about a person while associating the attribute information about the person with a feature amount indicating a feature of a face of the person; an imaging unit configured to capture a subject to generate image data; a display unit configured to display attribute information stored in the storage unit of a person included in an image represented by the generated image data; and a control unit configured to extract a feature amount of a face included in the generated image data and recognize a person, based on the extracted feature amount, by determining whether the person related to the extracted feature amount is the same as the person related to the feature amount stored in the storage unit, wherein the display unit displays, when the control unit determines that the person related to the extracted feature amount is the same as the person related to the feature amount stored in the storage unit, attribute information about the person associated with the extracted feature amount, and stops displaying of the attribute information, while the image represented by the image data is still being displayed, after a predetermined time elapses since a start of the displaying of the attribute information and after the person is recognized.