Television – Camera – system and detail – Optics
Reexamination Certificate
2007-12-26
2010-12-07
Vu, Ngoc-Yen T (Department: 2622)
Television
Camera, system and detail
Optics
C348S333030
Reexamination Certificate
active
07847855
ABSTRACT:
The image capturing apparatus includes: a taking optical system which includes a focusing lens; an imaging unit which receives a subject light through the taking optical system and converts the subject light to image data representing frame images; a face detection unit which detects a face region of a person in a first frame image that is one of the frame images sequentially supplied by the imaging unit; a face detection setting unit which sets, for the face detection unit, a position and a size of a face region detection area in a second frame image supplied after the first frame image by the imaging unit, in accordance with a position and a size of the face region detected by the face detection unit in the first frame image; a focus region defining unit which defines, in accordance with a position and a size of the face region detected by the face detection unit in the second frame image, a focus evaluation value calculation region in a third frame image supplied after the second frame image by the imaging unit; a calculation unit which calculates a focus evaluation value in accordance with the image data in the focus evaluation value calculation region defined by the focus region defining unit in the third frame image; and a focus adjustment unit which adjusts a focus of the focusing lens in accordance with the focus evaluation value calculated by the calculation unit.
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Explanation of circumstances concerning accelerated examination, dated Sep. 14, 2010, of record in corresponding JP Application No. 2006-353204, 12 pages English and Japanese.
FUJIFILM Corporation
Sughrue & Mion, PLLC
Vu Ngoc-Yen T
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