Patent ID: 8116539

Claim:
An image capturing apparatus comprising: an image capturing device which receives an optical image of an object subjected to light via an image capturing lens and converts the optical image into an image signal; a face detecting device which detects a plurality of human faces from the image signal; a face distance calculating device which calculates a distance between the detected human faces; a notice device which gives a notice corresponding to the calculated distance between the human faces; a timer shot device which performs a real shooting after an elapse of a first predetermined time since a shooting instruction; a control device which gives the shooting instruction to the timer shot device when the calculated distance between the human faces is less than a predetermined value; and an evaluation value calculating device which calculates an evaluation value indicating whether a composition of the image signal is good or not according to at least one of parameters including a degree of overlapping of the detected human faces, a difference of directions of the detected human faces, and an inclination of the detected human faces, wherein the control device gives a shooting instruction to the timer shooting device when the calculated distance between the human faces is less than the predetermined value and the evaluation value of the evaluation value calculating device is a predetermined value or more.