Patent ID: 8736741
Filing Date: 2014-05-27
Classification: G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging device, comprising: an imaging section for receiving subject light flux made incident by a photographing lens on an image forming surface, and subjecting the subject image on the imaging surface to photoelectric conversion to output subject image data; a display section for carrying out a live view display operation using image data acquired by the imaging section; a first contrast AF section for obtaining contrast information of a subject image from the image data acquired by the imaging section, and guiding the photographing lens into a first in-focus permissible range based on the contrast information; a control section for, if the live view display operation has commenced, performing control so that a focus adjustment operation is executed using the first contrast AF section at a first time interval; and a release button having a two stage operating feature, of a half pressed operation and a fully pressed operation; wherein the control section performs control so as to continuously repeat execution of a focus adjustment operation using the first contrast AF section at a second time interval that is shorter than the first time interval, if the release button has been pressed down halfway.