Patent ID: 8654203
Filing Date: 2014-02-18
Classification: G02B,G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging device, comprising: an imaging sensor that captures subject light via a photographic optical system having a zoom lens and a focus lens; a display unit that displays a through image based upon an imaging signal from the imaging sensor; a predetermined area setting unit that sets a predetermined area on the through image displayed on a display surface of the display unit in a state which is set to a first angle of view or a second angle of view different from the first angle of view by driving the zoom lens; a movement control unit that controls movements of the zoom lens and the focus lens so as to change from a first state, which is set to the first angle of view by the zoom lens and serves as an in-focus state focused on the predetermined area by the focus lens, to a second state, which is set to the second angle of view by the zoom lens and serves as an out-of-focus state defocused on the predetermined area by the focus lens, or from the second state to the first state over a predetermined period of time; and a movie image data creation unit that creates movie image data, which includes a movie image changed from the first state to the second state or from the second state to the first state by the movements of the zoom lens and the focus lens controlled by the movement control unit over the predetermined period of time, based upon the imaging signal from the imaging sensor.