Image capturing apparatus and image capturing method

An imaging device of the present invention comprises a facial organ detection section for detecting eyes from a digital image, an eye-priority AF section for setting an AF region to a detected eye and focusing on the eye, and an image processing section for carrying out image processing on the digit...

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1. Verfasser:	KUNISHIGE KEIJI
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	ACCESSORIES THEREFOR APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USINGWAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FORPROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM CINEMATOGRAPHY ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE ELECTRICITY ELECTROGRAPHY HOLOGRAPHY OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS OPTICS PHOTOGRAPHY PHYSICS PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
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Zusammenfassung:	An imaging device of the present invention comprises a facial organ detection section for detecting eyes from a digital image, an eye-priority AF section for setting an AF region to a detected eye and focusing on the eye, and an image processing section for carrying out image processing on the digital image to feather the periphery of an eye that the eye-priority AF section has focused on, wherein the facial organ detection section detects facial organs from a digital image that has been captured by the imaging section, and determines inclination of a face based on the detected facial organs, the eye-priority AF section selects one eye based on the inclination of the face, and carries out focusing on the selected eye, and the image processing section carries out processing to feather eyes that have not been selected, and varies feathering strength in accordance with inclination of the face.