Patent ID: 8441568

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: a storage unit configured to store attribute information about a person and information about a priority of the person, the information about the priority of the person being stored with the attribute information about the person associated with the information about the priority; an imaging unit configured to capture a subject to generate image data; and a display unit configured to display the attribute information about the person included in an image represented by the image data generated by the imaging unit, the attribute information being displayed at any position around a face of the person, wherein, when displays of a plurality of pieces of the attribute information for a plurality of people are to be overlapped by the display unit, the display unit displays the attribute information of a person, of the plurality of people, having a higher priority over the attribute information of a person, of the plurality of people, having a lower priority, such that the attribute information of the person having the higher priority at least partially covers the attribute information of the person having the lower priority, and wherein, after the display unit displays the attribute information of the person having the higher priority so as to at least partially cover the attribute information of the person having the lower priority and when the displays of the plurality of pieces of attribute information for the plurality of people become to not overlap, the display unit displays each of the plurality of pieces of attribute information regardless of the priority of each of the plurality of people.