Patent ID: 7397611
Filing Date: 2008-07-08
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image capturing apparatus comprising: an image capturing unit; a lens; a moving unit which moves the lens; a focusing unit which divides a capture field of the image capturing unit into a plurality of areas, controls the moving unit so that the moving unit moves the lens, and focuses on an object included in each of the plurality of areas; a control unit which performs control so as to associate the plurality of lens positions of the lens focused on by the focusing unit with the plurality of areas including the objects which are focused on at the plurality of lens positions; a first image data acquisition unit which controls the moving unit so that the moving unit moves the lens to the plurality of lens positions that have been associated by the control unit, and acquires image data in the plurality of areas that have been associated with the lens positions of the lens moved by the moving unit, and a generation unit which composes a plurality of image data acquired by the image data acquisition unit and generates image data corresponding to the capture field.