Patent ID: 6826362
Filing Date: 2004-11-30
Classification: G01S

Abstract:
A camera having a distance measuring apparatus which performs distance measuring of a plurality of distance-measuring areas in a photographing plane, comprising:photo-receiving lenses, each forming an object image; a photo receiving unit receiving the object images formed by the photo-receiving lenses; a computing unit computing data about object-to-camera distances on the plurality of distance-measuring areas on the basis of outputs of the photo receiving unit; a selecting unit selecting any one of the distance-measuring areas in the photographing plane on the basis of the computed results of the computing unit; and a determining unit determining whether or not an extreme value exists in outputs of the photo receiving unit, in the distance-measuring area selected by the selecting unit, wherein, when the determining unit determines that the extreme value does not exist, the selecting unit selects a second distance-measuring area different from the initially-selected first distance-measuring area.