Patent ID: 9736356
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: G06K,G06T,H04N

Claim:
1. A photographing apparatus comprising: an image pickup section picking up an image of an object at a particular angle of view; and control and signal processing circuits for (1) acquiring object image data based on the image of the object, (2) judging a main object in the image based on the object image data, (3) judging a position and direction of a face of the main object, (4) responsive to a determination that the face of the main object is sideways, estimating, by analysis of the object image data, a position of a second part of the main object from the judged position and direction of the face of the main object, and (5) responsive to a determination that the position of the second part of the main object cannot be estimated, judging a change of the second part, causing the image pickup section to pick up another image of the object at an angle of view wider than the particular angle of view, and acquiring object image data of the other image.