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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2007
Yoshito Terashima, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshito Terashima, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An imaging apparatus is disclosed. The imaging apparatus includes: a face detecting part configured to detect a face area from an input image in the imaging apparatus; a measurement frame setting part configured to set a measurement frame corresponding to a face area that includes a face area and a measurement frame corresponding to a body area that includes a body area based on the face area detected in the face detecting part; and a focus control part configured to apply each of the plurality of the measurement frames set by the measurement frame setting part to detect in-focus positions corresponding to the individual measurement frames based on a check of information about the detected in-focus positions corresponding to the individual measurement frames, and to decide a final in-focus position.