Patent Document ID: 8605142
Application ID: 12948230
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A multi-eye image pickup device comprising: a plurality of imaging optical systems, each of the imaging optical systems being set at one magnification discretely; a plurality of image sensors, each of the image sensors capturing an image formed by each of the imaging optical systems; a face detecting section for detecting a person's face from each of the images captured in preliminary photography; a face comparing section for comparing the faces among the images captured by the plural image sensors to find out a correspondence among the faces of a same person; and a face evaluating section for calculating a face evaluation value based on a feature amount for characterizing the face, and for ranking the faces based on the face evaluation values if the plural persons' faces are detected in each of the images, the face evaluating section reflecting ranking of the faces determined in a most telephoto image out of the plural images in ranking of the faces in the other image captured at a different magnification lower than a magnification of the most telephoto image.