Patent ID: 9210334
Filing Date: 2015-12-08
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging unit configured to perform photoelectric conversion on a light flux received at an imaging element and to generate image data; a face detecting circuit configured to detect a face part of a main subject from the image data; and a control unit configured to compare an exposure value for the face part with an exposure value for a background part, to notify a photographer that a currently-photographed scene is a flare portrait scene if the exposure value for the background part is greater than the exposure value for the face part, and to control exposure so that an exposure value for a boundary area defined as a low contrast area surrounding the face part, being closer to the face part than to the background part, and undergoing small brightness change, is set to a second appropriate value greater than a first appropriate value, the first appropriate value being predetermined.