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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:
May. 26, 2009

Filed:

Feb. 17, 2005
Applicants:

Takashi Igarashi, Kanagawa, JP;

Ayumu Isomura, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Takashi Igarashi, Kanagawa, JP;

Ayumu Isomura, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/222 (2006.01); H04N 5/76 (2006.01); G03B 3/10 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing module for capturing an image; a display module for displaying the captured image captured by said image capturing module; a main object selecting module for selecting a main object out of the captured image; a frame display module for displaying a frame, which surrounds the main object, over the captured image on the display module. The frame display module may display a frame in the neighborhood of and around the circumference of the main object, in order to capture a high quality image easily by recognizing a main object correctly and controlling an image capturing condition on the basis of the image of the recognized main object.


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