Patent ID: 8676049
Filing Date: 2014-03-18
Classification: G02B,G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging control unit comprising: a detecting unit that detects, for each frame, if a focus detecting range set in a frame of an imaged image data is in a focused-status or not based on the image data in the focus detecting range; a setting unit that sets, at a position of a distinctive-region including a distinctive points of an object detected from an processed image data which is generated through an image processing to the imaged image data of a first frame being processed, a focus detecting range of an imaged image data of a second frame subsequent to the first frame; and a control unit that, when the focus detecting range of the first frame is not in focused-status, aborts performing the focal length control, if the displacement amount is larger than the reference value, even when the focus detecting range is not in focused-status.