Patent ID: 11966155
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Optics (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An imaging apparatus comprising:
an image sensor;
a specific operation member; and
a memory and at least one processor which function as:
a control unit configured to control a display unit to display an autofocus (AF) frame indicating an AF position together with a live image obtained by capturing by the image sensor; and
a line-of-sight detection unit configured to detect a position of a line-of-sight of a user in order to specify the AF position using the line-of-sight of the user,
wherein the control unit performs control so that,
(i) in response to a predetermined operation on the specific operation member,
in a first AF mode, an object as a tracking target is determined based on the detected position of the line-of-sight, the object as the tracking target is tracked, and the AF position is moved according to a movement of the object as the tracking target and,
in a second AF mode, the AF position is determined based on the detected position of the line-of-sight and, even if the detected position of the line-of-sight has been moved, the determined AF position is fixed without being moved, and
(ii) while no operation is performed on the specific operation member,
in a case where a predetermined setting regarding the line-of-sight is set, the AF frame is displayed following the position of the line-of-sight detected by the line-of-sight detection unit, and a line-of-sight pointer indicating the position of the line-of-sight is not displayed, and
in a case where the predetermined setting regarding the line-of-sight is not set, the AF frame is displayed without moving the AF frame based on the position of the line-of-sight detected by the line-of-sight detection unit, and the line-of-sight pointer is displayed following the position of the line-of-sight detected by the line-of-sight detection unit.