Patent Document ID: 20080218595
Application ID: 11905587
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A digital camera comprising: an object detecting unit which analyzes an analysis target image including a through image data taken in from an image pickup device to compose a shot of an object, a shot image acquired by shooting, or a reduced image acquired by reducing the shot image, on the basis of a feature appearing in an image representing a subject of shooting including a person, an animal and a plant, and detects at least one main object captured in said analysis target image; a subject information extracting unit which extracts, for each image of at least one object detected by said object detecting unit from said analysis target image corresponding to a shot image acquired by shooting, subject information including position data which represents a position of the image of the object on a screen corresponding to said analysis target image and corresponding to an expansion of the image of the object; and a tag data writing unit which writes the subject information extracted corresponding to said each object, as a part of tag data corresponding to said shot image, to a storage medium which stores image data representing said shot image.