Television – Camera – system and detail – Optics
Patent
1995-06-14
1997-01-14
Peng, John K.
Television
Camera, system and detail
Optics
348347, H04N 5232
Patent
active
055945007
ABSTRACT:
An image pickup apparatus, which includes an eye point sensor for detecting an eye point in a frame, a calculation circuit for calculating average coordinates of the eye point in the frame detected by the eye point sensor, a setting circuit for setting a distance measurement frame at the average coordinates output from the calculation circuit, and a control circuit for controlling the size of the distance measurement frame according to the focal length, is disclosed.
An image pickup apparatus, which includes a focus calculation circuit for detecting a focus state by detecting the dispersion range of an eye point, is also disclosed.
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Kaneda Kitahiro
Tanaka Taeko
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
Ho Tuan V.
Peng John K.
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