Priority target determining device, electronic equipment, priority target determining method, program, and recording medium

A priority target determining device for determining a preferential face image from a plurality of face images contained in a plurality of original images has a face detecting portion for detecting a face image and positional information from the plurality of original images, a face checking portion for checking a feature of the face image detected by the face detecting portion with a feature of the face image detected in the past, and a determining portion for determining the face images as the preferential face image when number of face images in which the features match reaches a predetermined number as a result of the check by the face checking portion. If the position of the face image detected by the face detecting portion is outside a region set in the original image, the face detecting portion does not send the face image, the face checking portion does not execute the check related to the face image.