Television – Camera – system and detail – Optics
Reexamination Certificate
2007-12-18
2011-11-15
Ometz, David (Department: 2622)
Television
Camera, system and detail
Optics
C348S222100
Reexamination Certificate
active
08059186
ABSTRACT:
A camera having a focus adjusting system and a face recognition function includes a photographing optical system; an image pickup device; a focus adjusting device which performs a focus search process in which the image pickup device captures object images at different positions while the focusing lens group moves between near and far extremities thereof to detect an in-focus lens position; and a face recognition device for recognizing a face image based on the image signals, wherein if the face recognition device recognizes the face image and an in-focus state is previously achieved on the face image previously recognized, the focus adjusting device determines a range of movement of the focusing lens group based on sizes and positions of the face image captured when the in-focus state was previously achieved and the face image currently recognized on a picture plane.
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Greenblum & Bernstein P.L.C.
Hoya Corporation
Ometz David
Tejano Dwight C
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