Patent ID: 8471953
Filing Date: 2013-06-25
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An electronic camera, comprising: an imager, having an imaging surface irradiated with an optical image of a scene through an optical lens, which repeatedly generates a scene image; an allocator which allocates a plurality of areas on the scene captured by said imaging surface; a detector which detects a degree of focus of a partial image belonging to each of the plurality of areas allocated by said allocator, out of the scene image generated by said imager; a designator which sequentially designates each of the plurality of areas allocated by said allocator as an area to be noticed; a modifier which modifies the degree of focus detected by said detector corresponding to the area to be noticed to a lower value, as a brightness of the partial image belonging to one or more areas including the area to be noticed is higher; and an adjustor which adjusts a distance from said optical lens to said imaging surface to a distance corresponding to a focal point by referencing the degree of focus modified by said modifier.