Patent ID: 8260012

Claim:
An image-capturing apparatus for capturing an image using a solid-state image-capturing device, the image-capturing apparatus comprising: a face detector configured to detect a face of a human being based on an image signal in a period until an image signal obtained by image capturing is recorded on a recording medium; an expression evaluation section configured to evaluate the expression of the detected face and to compute an expression evaluation value indicating the degree to which the detected face is closer to a specific expression than to expressions other than the specific expression; a notification section configured to output notification information corresponding to the computed expression evaluation value, wherein the notification section outputs, as the notification information, notification sound that differs in accordance with the magnitude of the expression evaluation value; a self-timer recording controller configured to perform control so that the image signal obtained by image capturing is coded and automatically recorded on the recording medium after a fixed period of time that starts when depression of a shutter release button is detected; and a self-timer light-emitting section configured to notify that a self-timer is being operated starting from when the shutter release button is depressed until when the image signal obtained by image capturing is recorded on the recording medium, wherein the notification section includes a light-emitting section displaying the magnitude of the expression evaluation value, and the light-emitting section is configured to also serve as the self-timer light-emitting section.