Patent ID: 8890993
Filing Date: 2014-11-18
Classification: G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging device capable of taking digital images, comprising: a facial organ detection section for detecting facial organs including eyes within a face from an image that has been taken by an imaging section; an eye selection section for comparing sizes of eyes detected by the facial organ detection section and selecting the largest eye; an eye size comparative determination section for comparing the size of the eye that has been selected by the eye selection section with a specified value; an AF region setting section for setting an AF region in accordance with size and position of the selected eye when it has been determined by the eye size comparative determination section that the size of the eye is larger than the specified value, and setting an AF region in accordance with position and size of a face to which the selected eye belongs when it has been determined that the size of the eye is smaller than the specified value; and an AF processing section for carrying out an AF operation based on the AF region set by the AF region setting section, wherein the specified value is set to a value such that focus is varied in a distance range of a depth of a face.