Patent ID: 8106995
Filing Date: 2012-01-31
Classification: G02B,G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image-taking method for taking an image including a person, comprising: taking a plurality of images for recording at once with different focus positions in accordance with an instruction for shooting and recording a plurality of the images for recording taken in a memory for temporal storage; detecting a human face or eye in a reference image being a particular image among a plurality of images recorded in the memory for temporal storage for recording and setting an area enclosing the detected human face or eye as a focus evaluation area after all the multiple images for recording are taken and all the taken images for recording are recorded in the memory for temporal storage; calculating a focus evaluation value in the focus evaluation area of each of the plurality of images recorded in the memory for temporal storage for recording; choosing an image for recording with the highest focus evaluation value; and recording the chosen image for recording in the memory for recording.