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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2008
Applicant:
Yukio Mori, Hirakata, JP;
Inventor:
Yukio Mori, Hirakata, JP;
Assignee:
SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., Moriguchi, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G03B 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An easy-to-carry image pickup device is provided to obtain images with multiple view angles in which a target subject is positioned in an appropriate size. When capturing an image of a person as a target subject, the size and position of the person's face in the image are detected as a specified part, and a zoom magnification ratio for a lens unit and a shift amount of the incident light position for a light-axis shifting unit are automatically controlled based on the detected size and position of the person's face, so that the person's face has a predetermined size and is positioned in a predetermined position in the image.