Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Takahiro Fujisawa

Noriaki Ojima

Masato Sanno

An image pickup device provided with an automatic focusing function includes an image pickup unit, a face detection unit, a receive unit, and an automatic focusing control unit. The image pickup unit is configured to input image data corresponding to a subject. The face detection unit is configured to separately detect eyes, a nose, and a mouth of a human face from the image data input from the image pickup unit. The receive unit is configured to receive from a user a selection of any one of the eyes, the nose, or the mouth as a ranging area. The automatic focusing control unit is configured to perform automatic focusing control based on the ranging area selected by the user.

Image pickup device, automatic focusing method, automatic exposure method, electronic flash control method and computer program

An imaging apparatus (), including: a recording unit () configured to record as an image file () an image data generated by conversion from an optical image representing a subject to an electrical signal in an imaging device (); an interface () for connecting the imaging apparatus () to an external device; an information adding unit () configured to add information to the image file (); and an print request unit () configured to issue a request to a printer () to print out only the image file () to which the information is added by the information adding unit () when the image file () is printed out.

Imaging apparatus, information device including the same, and imaging method therefor

An image pickup device includes an image pickup unit configured to convert a subject image to image data and to output the image data and a face image recognition unit configured to recognize a face image from the image data. When the face image is recognized by the face image recognition unit, the face image portion is cut out and stored as a separate image file.

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Tokyo, Japan

Takahiro Fujisawa