Patent ID: 8615112

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus, comprising: an image pickup device which picks up an image of plural subjects; a display device which displays the image that is picked up by the image pickup device; a face detection device which detects a plurality of face images of the subjects within the picked-up image based on image information of the picked-up image; a face image evaluation device which carries out an evaluation regarding a specific condition for the plurality of face images detected by the face detection device; an image display control device which makes the display device display the picked-up image and the plurality of face images detected by the face detection device, wherein the plurality of face images are simultaneously displayed so as to be in an enlarged form and are arranged in an order of respective values obtained according to the evaluation carried out by the face image evaluation device; and an image recording unit which records the image information; wherein the image display control device comprises a different condition order display control device which makes the display device simultaneously display the plurality of face images detected by the face detection device in an order of evaluation carried out by the face image evaluation device based on specific conditions which are different from one another between a case that a through image which is picked up by the image pickup device is displayed in the display device and a case that a recorded image based on the image information recorded in the image recording unit is displayed in the display device.