Patent ID: 8319848

Claim:
An imaging apparatus including an exposure control unit for applying an exposure correction to a received image, comprising: an imaging unit that receives image data in response to a photographic subject; a face detection unit that detects a human face from the received image data; a photometry unit that performs a photometry of the human face detected, as a photometry area, by the face detection unit; and the exposure control unit that calculates a target exposure amount in accordance with a photometry result of the human face obtained from the photometry unit to calculate an exposure control value in accordance with the calculated target exposure amount, wherein the exposure control unit applies an exposure correction to the received image by using the exposure control value determined by the exposure control unit, as an area smaller than a domain of the human face detected by the face detection unit is set to a photometry area, wherein an inclination of the detected human face is determined, and a shape of the photometry area is varied by inclining the photometry area in response to an inclination degree of the human face.