Patent ID: 8830374

Claim:
An image capture device comprising: an image capturing section, which receives light that has come from a subject and which generates an image of the subject; a first detecting section for detecting a feature in the generated image by a first method; a second detecting section for detecting a feature in the generated image by a second method, which is different from the first method; an interface section for accepting a user operation that specifies a position on the generated image; and a controller for: (i) determining a relationship between a position on the generated image of the feature detected by the first detecting section and the position specified by the user operation at a point in time when the interface section accepts the user operation, and (ii) based on the relationship between the position of the feature detected by the first detecting section and the position specified by the user operation, determining which of the first and second detecting sections is used to detect a feature in an image generated by the image capturing section subsequent to that point in time.