Patent ID: 8773567

Claim:
An image capturing apparatus comprising: an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of a subject to acquire image data; a display unit configured to display the image of the subject based on the image data acquired by the image capturing unit; a display control unit configured to perform a control operation so that information displayed at a predetermined position and a movably displayed frame are superimposed on the image of the subject displayed by the display unit; a face detecting unit configured to detect faces of the subjects based on the image data acquired by the image capturing unit; and a selecting unit configured to select a face of a main subject from the faces of the subjects detected by the face detecting unit, wherein, when a plurality of the frames that enclose the faces of the subjects detected by the face detecting unit are displayed, the display control unit switches, in accordance with an overlapping state of the frame and the information, an object to be preferentially displayed between the information and the frame regarding the frame that encloses the face of the main subject selected by the selecting unit, the information is displayed preferentially when the information overlaps the frame that encloses a face of a subject other than the main subject.