Patent ID: 8339448

Claim:
An imaging apparatus which can be set to a single shooting mode and a continuous shooting mode, comprising: an imaging unit operable to capture a subject to generate image data; an extracting unit operable to extract feature quantity information indicative of a feature of the subject from the image data generated by the imaging unit; a storing unit operable to store the feature quantity information extracted by the extracting unit as a registration candidate; a determining unit operable to determine whether a subject indicated by the feature quantity information extracted by the extracting unit is a same subject indicated by the feature quantity information stored in the storing unit as the registration candidate; and a display unit operable to display a screen for prompting a user, with a user's operation concerning registration, in accordance with number of times the determining unit determines that the subject indicated by the feature quantity information extracted by the extracting unit is the same subject indicated by the feature quantity information stored in the storing unit as the registration candidate, wherein when the imaging apparatus is set to the single shooting mode, the display unit displays the screen for prompting the user with the user's operation concerning registration, and when the imaging apparatus is set to the continuous shooting mode, the display unit does not display the screen for prompting the user with the user's operation concerning registration.