Patent ID: 8629914

Claim:
An imaging device comprising: an imaging sensor that captures subject light via a photographic optical system having a focusing lens; a display unit that displays a through image based upon an imaging signal from the imaging sensor; an area setting unit that sets at least two areas on the through image displayed on a display surface of the display unit; a movement control unit that adjusts a focus position to a subject in one area of the at least two areas set by the area setting unit and moves the focus position from the subject in the one area to a subject in an other area, which is different from the one area, of the at least two areas over a predetermined time by controlling drive of the focusing lens; a movie image creation unit that creates movie image data from the imaging signal being output from the imaging sensor, the movie image data including a movie image having the focus position moved from the subject in the one area to the subject in the other area by the movement control unit; and a detection unit that detects a change in a feature amount of an image in at least one of the one area and the other area, wherein the movement control unit starts the movement of the focus position based upon the change in the feature amount of the image detected by the detection unit.