Patent ID: 7705737

Claim:
An object identifying device comprising: a shooting unit configured to shoot an object to obtain a shot image; a plurality of buttons comprising operating buttons and a shutter button; an input request unit configured to request a user to perform an input operation using at least one of the buttons; and a control unit configured to control the input request unit and the input unit, and is further configured to perform: an identifying process that identifies the object, a register process that registers, as a predetermined operation, actuation of at least one of the buttons that causes the shooting unit to shoot the user as the object, a truth and falseness deciding process that compares the input operation that is received by the input unit in response to the request from the input request unit with the pre-registered operation, and a matching process performed when the input operation matches the pre-registered operation that compares the shot image with the pre-registered image data of the object; wherein the identifying process identifies the object as a pre-registered image in the case where the input operation matches the pre-registered operation and the shot image matches the pre-registered image data.