Adjusting focus areas in a group of focal areas based on face information

A digital photographing apparatus uses a face recognition function for obtaining an image in which faces are focused by setting autofocus areas in the recognized faces and photographing the faces in a bracket mode based on the set AF areas. The digital photographing apparatus includes a face recogni...

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Main Authors BYEONGAN PARK, HYUN-SIK YU, SANG-RYOON SON
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 12.12.2012
Subjects
ACCESSORIES THEREFOR
APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USINGWAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES
APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FORPROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM
CALCULATING
CINEMATOGRAPHY
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRICITY
ELECTROGRAPHY
HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
HOLOGRAPHY
PHOTOGRAPHY
PHYSICS
PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
PRESENTATION OF DATA
RECOGNITION OF DATA
RECORD CARRIERS
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Summary:A digital photographing apparatus uses a face recognition function for obtaining an image in which faces are focused by setting autofocus areas in the recognized faces and photographing the faces in a bracket mode based on the set AF areas. The digital photographing apparatus includes a face recognition unit detecting face information from a real image (step 1003). The face information corresponds to faces in the image. An autofocus area setting unit sets focus areas based on the face information and assigning at least two focus areas to a focus area group (step 1007); and a control unit adjusts the focus of the focus area group. The camera can then capture images for the group(s) (step 1015). The spacing between eyebrows may be used to calculate the distance from the camera and a range finding unit may measure the distance between a face and the camera.
Bibliography:Application Number: GB20120012186