Patent Document ID: 20120098992
Application ID: 13274601
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An imaging apparatus comprising: a sensor configured to capture a subject image and output an image signal; a face recognition unit configured to recognize a face of the subject image based on the image signal output from the sensor; a face size calculation unit configured to calculate a face size of the face of the subject image recognized by the face recognition unit; a face inclination detection unit configured to detect an inclination of the face of the subject image recognized by the face recognition unit; and a controller configured to control a photographing angle of view based on the face size detected by the face size calculation unit and the face inclination detected by the face inclination detection unit, wherein the controller controls the photographing angle of view so that a size with respect to the photographing angle of view of the subject image recognized by the face recognition unit becomes a predetermined size.