Camera having face detection and with automatic focus...

Details Camera having face detection and with automatic focus... Camera having face detection and with automatic focus...

2011-08-30

2011-08-30

Laballe, Clayton E (Department: 2862)

Photography

With exposure objective focusing means, focusing aid, or...

Plural focusing or rangefinding areas

C396S128000, C348S362000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08009976

ABSTRACT:
A camera has a face detecting section, a focusing section, and a controlling section. The face detecting section detects a face area in a shooting image plane. The focusing section calculates a defocus amount based on a relative distance of a pair of images of a light beam that has passed through a shooting lens in each of a plurality of optional areas in the shooting image plane. The controlling section designates a focusing area among the optional areas based on an output of the face detecting section and performs a focusing operation of the shooting lens based on the defocus amount in the focusing area.

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