Patent Document ID: 8260041
Application ID: 13109463
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An image-capturing apparatus for capturing an image using a solid-state image-capturing device, the image-capturing apparatus comprising: a face detector configured to detect a face of a human being based on an image signal in a period until an image signal obtained by image capturing is recorded on a recording medium; an expression evaluation section configured to evaluate the expression of the detected face and to compute an expression evaluation value indicating the degree to which the detected face is closer to a specific expression than to expressions other than the specific expression; and a notification section configured to output notification information corresponding to the computed expression evaluation value, wherein the notification section notifies, as the notification information, information that visually indicates the magnitude of the expression evaluation value to an image-captured person side, and the notification section comprises a light-emitting section used to provide both a function of indicating the magnitude of the expression evaluation value and another function.