Photography – With exposure objective focusing means – focusing aid – or... – Plural focusing or rangefinding areas
Reexamination Certificate
2011-01-18
2011-01-18
Perkey, W. B. (Department: 2862)
Photography
With exposure objective focusing means, focusing aid, or...
Plural focusing or rangefinding areas
C348S148000, C348S149000, C348S155000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07873268
ABSTRACT:
A focus adjusting apparatus adjusts a focus of a camera imaging a moving object. The apparatus includes a calculating unit that calculates a first out-of-focus level of a portion corresponding to the moving object within a first region of an image picked up by the camera, and calculates a second out-of-focus level of a portion corresponding to the moving object within a second region of an image; and a focus adjusting unit that shifts the focus of the camera in a direction in which the camera is focused onto the portion corresponding to the moving object within the first region when the first out-of-focus level is larger than the second out-of-focus level, and that shifts the focus in a direction in which the camera is focused onto the portion corresponding to the moving object within the second region when the second out-of-focus level is larger than the first out-of-focus level.
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Segawa Eigo
Shiohara Morito
Fujitsu Limited
Perkey W. B.
Reisner Noam
Staas & Halsey , LLP
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