Patent ID: 8035729
Filing Date: 2011-10-11
Classification: G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging device, comprising: an image sensor; a first judgment section which judges whether or not the imaging device is in a state satisfying an automatic shooting condition that an image blurring of an image related to shooting or an image blurring of a main photographic subject is less than a first threshold value; a second judgment section which judges whether or not the imaging device is in a state similar to the state satisfying the automatic shooting condition, in which the image blurring of the image related to shooting or the image blurring of the main photographic subject is more than the first threshold value but less than a second threshold value; an automatic shooting control section which successively judges by the first judgment section whether or not the imaging device is in the state satisfying the automatic shooting condition, and automatically records image data captured by the image sensor when a judgment is made that the imaging device is in the state satisfying the automatic shooting condition; and an automatic exposure control section which, after performing automatic exposure adjustment in a mode which is not an aperture preferred mode, successively judges by the second judgment section whether or not the imaging device is in the state similar to the state satisfying the automatic shooting condition, and performs automatic exposure adjustment in the aperture preferred mode when a judgment is made that the imaging device is in the state similar to the state satisfying the automatic shooting condition.