Patent ID: 7417672

Claim:
An imaging device comprising: imaging means for imaging a subject to acquire image data which represents said subject; storage means for storing recommended composition data, which represent composition images that represent an image of a composition that is recommended in performing photography at various locations, in correlation with photography information including positional information which represents said various photography locations; photography information acquisition means for acquiring said photography information; read-out means for reading out desired, recommended composition data correlated with the photography information which corresponds to said acquired photography information, from said storage means, based on said acquired photography information; and display means for superposing and displaying a recommended composition image represented by said desired, recommended composition data and an image represented by said image data, wherein along with said positional information included in the photography information, said photography information also includes date information which represents various recommended dates for performing photography at said various photography locations; and in addition to said various photography locations, said recommended composition data represent the composition images recommended on said various recommended dates for performing photography at said various photography locations, and when the photography information includes more than one recommended photography dates, each of the photography dates is ranked according to a relative degree of preference for performing photography.