Patent ID: 7538814
Filing Date: 2009-05-26
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image capturing apparatus comprising: an image capturing module for capturing an image, said image capturing module comprising an optical system that varies a focal length which is a distance from the image capturing apparatus to a focused object; a display module for displaying the captured image captured by said image capturing module; a main object selecting module for selecting a main object in the captured image, said main object selecting module comprising: a frame display module for displaying a frame, which surrounds the main object, over the captured image on the display module, said frame surrounding the region selected by said region selecting module; wherein said main object distance acquiring module acquires a focal length for which a value of a sum multiplied by a distance weight of each focal length is the biggest as the main object distance, the sum having a value of a sum of areas of regions having the same focal lengths multiplied by predetermined weights of regions, respectively.