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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2022

Filed:

Jul. 18, 2020
Applicant:

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;

Inventors:

Kohei Fukugawa, Osaka, JP;

Naoko Takeda, Osaka, JP;

Masahiro Murakami, Kyoto, JP;

Kuniyoshi Kobayashi, Osaka, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232127 (2018.08); H04N 5/232945 (2018.08);
Abstract

An imaging device includes an imager configured to capture a subject to generate a captured image; a recognizer configured to recognize the subject on the captured image; and a controller configured to control a focusing operation based on a focusing region set on the captured image, wherein the controller, when the subject is recognized to be present in a first determination region in a state where the focusing region is set on a predetermined region fixedly arranged on the captured image, sets the focusing region depending on a recognition result of the recognizer instead of the predetermined region.


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