IMAGING DEVICE AND SMILE RECORDING PROGRAM

A digital camera (10) includes a CPU (24). The CPU (24) repetitively captures an object scene image on an imaging surface (14f) by controlling an image sensor (14), detects a facial image from each object scene image thus created, judges whether or not the face of each of the detected facial image has a smile, and records the object scene image created after the judgment result about which at least one detected facial image is changed from a state indicating a non-smile to a state indicating a smile into the recording medium (38) by controlling the I/F (36). Also, in a certain mode, an area is assigned to each object scene image in response to an area designating operation via the key input device (26), and execution of the recording processing is restricted on the basis of at least a positional relationship between the facial image which is judged as having a smile and the assigned area. In another mode, such a restriction is not imposed.