Object determining device and imaging apparatus

Details Object determining device and imaging apparatus Object determining device and imaging apparatus

2011-03-22

2011-03-22

Fuller, Rodney E (Department: 2862)

Photography

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

Plural focusing or rangefinding areas

C382S115000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07912363

ABSTRACT:
Face detection is executed only on an image imaged based on an arbitrary (predetermined) focal point information defined in advance. In face detection, the face of a person is detected based on a relative value of statistics in a plurality of characteristic regions produced by contour or parts of the face of the person. Thus, even if the face in the image used for face detection is blurred, the statistics in a certain region can be acquired, and thus such face is detectable. Therefore, the primary subject to be focused can be rapidly detected without performing focal point control at a stage of preliminary imaging in the imaging apparatus.

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