To provide an image pickup device provided with a pan-tilt function or an automatic zoom function for automatically tracking an object.

In this image pickup device provided with a pan-tilt/automatic zoom means 18 provided with at least one of the pan-tilt function and the automatic zoom function for automatically tracking the object and the control means 17 of the pan-tilt/automatic zoom means, a composition pattern storage means 15 for preserving a plurality of pieces of composition pattern information suitable for image photographing, an image input means 11 for inputting the image of a photographing scene, an image analysis means 14 for analyzing composition from the image of the image input means and a composition pattern selection means 16 for selecting a composition pattern optimum for the composition of the photographing scene analyzed by the image analysis means from the composition pattern storage means are provided. The control means controls the pan-tilt/automatic zoom means so as to make the composition of the photographing scene be suited to the optimum composition pattern.