Patent ID: 8237850
Filing Date: 2012-08-07
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An electronic camera, comprising: an imager, having an imaging surface irradiated with an optical image through an optical lens, which repeatedly outputs an electronic image corresponding to the optical image; an adjustor which adjusts a distance from said optical lens to said imaging surface to a distance corresponding to a focal point, based on the electronic image outputted from said imager; an excluder which executes a process of excluding from a target to be noticed by said adjustor a first portion image having a luminance exceeding a first threshold value, out of the electronic image outputted from said imager, when a second portion image having a luminance exceeding a second threshold value larger than the first threshold value exists on the electronic image outputted from said imager; and a decreasor which decreases the first threshold value according to an increase of an area of the second portion image noticed by said excluder.