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Patent No.:

US 8676049 B1

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Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2014

Filed:

Aug. 02, 2011
Applicant:

Takaaki Yonekawa, Yokohama, JP;

Inventor:

Takaaki Yonekawa, Yokohama, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An imaging control unit includes: a detecting unit that detects a focused-status of a focus detecting range set to an image data of each frame; a setting unit that sets, at a position of a distinctive-region including a distinctive points of an object detected from an processed image data, a focus detecting range of an image data of a subsequent frame; and a control unit that performs, when the focus detecting range is not in focused-status, a focal length control to change a focal length of a imaging lens so that the focus detecting range is in focused-status. When a displacement amount from the focus detecting range set to the imaged image data to the distinctive-region detected in the processed image data based on the imaged image data is large, the control unit aborts performing the focal length control even when the focus detecting range is not in focused-status.


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Yonekawa, Takaaki. (2014). Imaging control unit, imaging apparatus, and imaging control method (U.S. Patent No. 8676049). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/8676049

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