Patent ID: 7446810

Claim:
An image capturing apparatus comprising: an image capturing unit for capturing an image of an object; a focal length storing unit for storing a focal length of the object which is outside of an image capturing region of the image being captured by said image capturing unit by corresponding to a positional relationship between said image capturing unit and the object; an image capturing region variation detecting unit for detecting variation in the image capturing region of said image capturing unit; a positional relationship predicting unit for predicting a positional relationship between said image capturing unit and the object after the image capturing region of said image capturing unit is varied on the basis of the variation in the image capturing region detected by said image capturing region variation detecting unit; and a focus adjustment control unit for controlling focus adjustment by said image capturing unit on the basis of the focal length stored by said focal length storing unit, wherein the focal length is corresponded to the positional relationship predicted by said positional relationship predicting unit.