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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2012
Applicant:
Toshihiro Hamamura, Yokohama, JP;
Inventor:
Toshihiro Hamamura, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G03B 13/24 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 13/24 (2013.01); H04N 5/225 (2013.01); H04N 5/23203 (2013.01); H04N 5/23209 (2013.01); H04N 5/23212 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup unit to photograph a subject by using a photographing device, a control unit to determine an operation mode of the image pickup apparatus, and, when the operation mode of the image pickup apparatus is a manual focusing mode, the control unit selects a focus detecting method to be applied among a plurality of focus detecting methods according to a focus operation of a user, a determination unit to determine a focus state for the subject by using the selected focus detecting method, and a user interface unit to indicate the determined focus state.