Patent Document ID: 8786760
Application ID: 12221727
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A digital photographing apparatus comprising: an image sensing unit to sense an image of a scene; a face recognition unit to detect a plurality of faces in the image of the scene; an autofocus area setting unit to set a plurality of focus areas for the image of the scene, wherein the plurality of focus areas respectively corresponds to the plurality of faces detected in the image of the scene, and the plurality of focus areas comprises at least a first focus area and a second focus area; and a control unit, in response to a single input of a shutter signal, to automatically adjust focus for the first focus area and control the image sensing unit to automatically capture a first still image that corresponds to the first focus area, and automatically adjust focus for the second focus area and control the image sensing unit to automatically capture a second still image that corresponds to the second focus area.