Patent Document ID: 20100208127
Application ID: 12658175
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An image capturing apparatus comprising: an image sensor configured to obtain a captured image of a subject image; a face detection section configured to detect a face of a subject from the captured image; a focusing control section configured to perform a tracking focusing operation for maintaining a state in which the face of the subject is focused on the basis of a phase difference detection signal obtained from a distance measuring area provided in an image capturing area; a first determination section configured to determine whether or not the face of the subject is present in the distance measuring area when the face of the subject is detected by the face detection section; and a second determination section configured to determine whether or not a body area in which a body corresponding to the face of the subject is expected to be present is present in the distance measuring area when the face of the subject is determined not to be present in the distance measuring area by the first determination section, wherein the focusing control section performs the tracking focusing operation on the basis of the phase difference detection signal obtained from the distance measuring area in which the face of the subject is determined to be present when the face of the subject is determined to be present in the distance measuring area by the first determination section, and performs the tracking focusing operation on the basis of the phase difference detection signal obtained from the distance measuring area in which the body area is determined to be present when the body area is determined to be present in the distance measuring area by the second determination section when the face of the subject is determined not to be present in the distance measuring area by the first determination section.