PHOTOGRAPH SHOOTING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD OF SAME, AND PROGRAM

A photograph shooting device or the like which enables detection of illegal shooting, and implement electronic application using this device. The device performs operation instruction on a subject (operation instruction unit), and determines whether the subject is a living body by shooting a moving image of the movement of the subject responding to operation instruction and analyzing the shot image (living body determination unit). The device shoots an application image that is a photograph used for an application procedure (application image shooting unit). The device compares image cut from moving image with the application image, and determines whether the shot persons match (same person determination unit). When the subject is determined to be the living body, and a subject responding to the operation instruction is determined to match the subject in the application image, the device outputs the application image to a prescribed server (data output unit).