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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 12, 2013
Applicant:

Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Kosuke Matsumoto, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/228 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23212 (2013.01); H04N 5/2356 (2013.01); H04N 5/23219 (2013.01); H04N 5/23232 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image capture apparatus includes the image capture unit, the focus information acquisition unit, the frequency distribution calculation unit, and the photographing position determination unit. The focus information acquisition unitcalculates a subject focus position for each of a plurality of regions into which a photographed screen of a captured image captured by the image capture unitis divided. The frequency distribution calculation unitcounts the number of regions that corresponds to each of the subject focus positions acquired by way of measuring. The photographing position determination unitdetermines the focus position for photographing according to the number of regions that corresponds to each of the subject focus positions calculated by the focus information acquisition unit


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