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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2009
Akihiro Yoshida, Tokyo, JP;
Akihiro Yoshida, Tokyo, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An imaging device, such as a camera, may be provided with a focus-shift structure configured to shift a focal position; a solid-state image sensing element configured to convert an optical image of a photographing subject to image data; and an image processing unit including a face region detecting unit and a photographing subject frequency information capturing unit. The detecting unit may be configured to detect a face region from the image data and obtain face region information indicating the detected face region, and wherein the information capturing unit is configured to capture focus degree information indicating a degree of focus for each detected face region. Plural image data, the face region information, and the focus degree information may be stored in the imaging device as a single file.