Patent ID: 7701492

Claim:
An image-capturing apparatus which captures an image of an object while changing a zoom factor by control of a focal length of a multifocal optical lens, said image-capturing apparatus comprising: an object movement detecting unit operable to detect a movement of the object; an image-capturing-apparatus movement detecting unit operable to detect a movement of said image-capturing apparatus; a focal length calculating unit operable to calculate the focal length of the multifocal optical lens so that the zoom factor becomes lower than a set zoom factor in at least one of the cases where the movement of the object is detected by said object movement detecting unit, and where the movement of said image-capturing apparatus is detected by said image-capturing-apparatus movement detecting unit, and to calculate the focal length of the multifocal optical lens so that the zoom factor becomes equivalent to the set zoom factor in the cases where the movement of the object is not detected by said object movement detecting unit, and where the movement of said image-capturing apparatus is not detected by said image-capturing-apparatus movement detecting unit; a focal length control unit operable to control the focal length so that the focal length of the multifocal optical lens is adjusted to the focal length calculated by said focal length calculating unit; a frame area setting unit operable to clip a frame area out of the optical zoom image having been formed through the multifocal optical lens, the frame area being an area of which a position and a size are determined according to the zoom factor; an electronic zoom processing unit operable to change the size of the image in the frame area clipped by said frame area setting unit, through electronic zoom, to a size for displaying the image; a framing image display unit operable to display one of an electronic zoom image and the optical zoom image, the electronic zoom image having been electronic-zoomed by said electronic zoom processing unit; and a recording media unit in which the zoom factor and the optical zoom image are stored.