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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2014
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Akira Fukuda, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G03B 13/36 (2006.01); G02B 7/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23212 (2013.01); G02B 7/365 (2013.01); G03B 13/36 (2013.01); G06K 9/6267 (2013.01); H04N 5/23219 (2013.01); H04N 5/23293 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus and an imaging method that are capable of easily setting a type of a subject as a focusing target in each imaging. An image sensor acquires an image. An operation unit selects a type of a subject as a focusing target in each imaging of the image acquired by the image sensor. In the case where the type of the subject as a focusing target is selected by the operation unit, a microcomputer detects an area of the subject of that type from the image and sets the detected area as an in-focus area of the image. The present disclosure can be applied to an imaging apparatus, for example.