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Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2018

Filed:

Apr. 14, 2017
Applicant:

Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Shunichiro Nonaka, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G03B 37/02 (2006.01); G03B 15/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23212 (2013.01); G03B 15/0431 (2013.01); G03B 15/0436 (2013.01); G03B 37/02 (2013.01); H04N 5/23219 (2013.01);
Abstract

The imaging apparatus includes: an imaging optical system that is formed of a wide-angle optical system and a telephoto optical system having a common optical axis; a directional sensor; a panning/tilting mechanism that rotates an imaging section, which includes the imaging optical system and the directional sensor, in horizontal and vertical directions; and an image acquisition section that respectively acquires a wide-angle image, and a telephoto image, and a first target object is detected from a wide-angle image, the panning/tilting mechanism is controlled on the basis of information about a position of the detected first target object within the wide-angle image, and image recognition is performed on a telephoto image, when the first target object is positioned at the center of the wide-angle image, thereby recognizing the first target object or a second target object.


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