Patent ID: 7603032

Claim:
An image capturing apparatus, comprising: a necessary image type storing section that stores types of images necessary for making an album including a plurality of images; a captured image storing section that stores captured images; a captured image type judging section that judges whether an image type of a captured image stored on said captured image storing section corresponds to any of the types of necessary images stored on said necessary image type storing section; a captured image type storing section that stores a stored image type judged by said captured image type judging section in association with the captured image stored on said captured image storing section, the stored image type being judged by said captured image type judging section that the stored image type corresponds to any of the necessary image types stored on said necessary image type storing section; an image type comparing section that compares an image type stored on said necessary image type storing section and the stored image type already stored on said captured image type storing section to judge an image type of image that is stored on said necessary image type storing section but is not yet stored on said captured image type storing section; and an image capturing instructing section that instructs a user in advance to capture an image of the image type not yet stored on said captured image type storing section, which is judged by said image type comparing section, before capturing an image.