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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2010
Tadashi Sasaki, Saitama, JP;
Tadashi Sasaki, Saitama, JP;
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An autofocus system includes: a focus operating device which performs focusing in a shooting screen of a camera; a best focus range detecting device which detects a range of a best focus state from the shooting screen representing the result of the focusing performed by the focus operating device; a face detecting device which detects a range of a human face from the shooting screen; an AF frame automatic setting device by which, when a human face exists in the range being in the best focus state in the shooting screen, the position of an AF frame representing the range of an AF area that is the range to be focused by autofocus in the shooting screen, is automatically set to a face frame representing the range of the human face; and an AF frame automatic tracking device which automatically tracks a subject in the set AF frame.