Patent ID: 8045007

Claim:
An image capturing system comprising: a composition storage section for storing a plurality of compositions which identify a background image and a position in the background image of a main subject; a composition determination section for determining a composition desirable to a user among the plurality of compositions; an image capturing unit for capturing an image of the main subject having the composition determined by the composition determination section; a position identification section for identifying at least one of the position of the image capturing unit and the position of the main subject based on the composition determined by the composition determination section; a position presentation section for presenting to the user at least one of the position at which the image capturing unit is located and the position at which the main subject is located at a time that the image capturing unit captures the image, which are identified by the position identification section; a portable unit detection section for detecting a portable unit that is held by a person, who is a main subject of an image, and is located in a predetermined region within which the image having the determined composition can be captured by the image capturing unit; the position identification section identifies the position at which the person holding the detected portable unit is to be located when the image capturing unit captures the image having the determined composition so that the person can select the desirable composition; and when the portable unit detection section detects the portable unit within the predetermined region, the position presentation section transmits the identified position to the portable unit and the portable unit presents the received identified position to the person so that the person can take the image having the determined composition.