Patent ID: 7884874

Claim:
A digital still camera, comprising: an image sensing device for sensing an image of a subject and outputting image data representing the image of the subject; a display unit for displaying the image of the subject, which is represented by the image data that has been output from said image sensing device, on a display screen; a face image detecting device for detecting a face image contained in the image of the subject represented by the image data that has been output from said image sensing device; a first display control device for controlling said display unit in such a manner that a face frame, which encloses the face image that has been detected by said face image detecting device, and a trimming frame having an aspect ratio corresponding to an aspect ratio of the display screen and including the face frame, are displayed on the image of the subject; a second display control device for controlling the display unit in such a manner that an image that is a result of enlarging an image within the trimming frame is displayed over an entirety of the display screen; a shutter-release button; and a recording control device for recording the image data, which has been output from said image sensing device, on a recording medium in response to a depression of said shutter-release button, wherein the face image detecting device resizes the image of the subject to gradually smaller sizes, wherein the face image detecting device detects the face image by using a rectangular search area to scan each of the resized images of the subject, wherein a frame corresponds to the rectangular search area and said frame is displayed on the image of the subject, wherein a face image that is inclined is detected by rotating the face image within the rectangular search area and making a comparison with results of prelearning image data, wherein, if the face image detected by said face image detecting device is inclined, then the face image is rotated by an amount of an inclination of the face image in a direction opposite the inclination of the face image, and wherein the face frame has a different aspect ratio than the aspect of the display screen.