Patent ID: 7456877

Claim:
An image sensing apparatus comprising: an image sensor that acquires an image of an object as an image signal; a selection unit that selects before image sensing whether to perform a red-eye correction for the image of the object acquired by said image sensor; a red-eye correction unit that detects a red-eye from the image of the object and corrects the detected red-eye if performing of the a red-eye correction is selected by said selection unit; a display unit that displays an image; a display control unit that controls said display unit to display a predetermined information for identifying whether a displayed image is a red-eye corrected image or an original image of the object, to display character information indicating the number of people whose red-eye/eyes are corrected in a case where the red-eye corrected image is displayed, and in a case where the original image of the object is displayed, to display either of character information indicating that a red-eye corrected image has been generated, or information indicating that said red-eye correction unit did not perform the red-eye detection and the red-eye correction, or character information indicating that said red-eye correction unit performed the red-eye detection; and a recording unit that holds the image of the object, wherein said selection unit can further select whether to record either of an original image or a red-eye corrected image on said recording unit or to record both of the original image and the red-eye corrected image.