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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2003
Eiichi Ide, Itami, JP;
Mutsuhiro Yamanaka, Suita, JP;
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a digital camera in which the user can easily recognize that an image is out of focus by viewing a display image. At the time of live view display, image capturing is performed every predetermined time in an image capturing unit and images for live view display are successively recorded on an image memory An evaluation value computing unit in an overall control unit obtains an image stored in the image memory and calculates an evaluation value indicative of the focus state of the image. A display image control unit obtains the evaluation value, determines a focus state of the image, and controls a process to be performed by a display image processing unit in accordance with the result of determination. When the image is out of focus, an image quality degrading process is performed in the display image processing unit and an image of low image quality is displayed on a display