Focusing an image based on a direction of a face of a user

摘要

The invention discloses a method and a portable device for focusing an image in the device (10), which device (10) comprises; a first image recording arrangement (24a) for recording images of an user (50) of the device (10); a second image recording arrangement (24b) comprising an autofocus arrangement for recording images of the environment surrounding the device (10); and a display arrangement (22) for reproducing the recorded images of the environment surrounding the device (10), which method comprises the step of: obtaining a plurality of gazing directions of the user (50) from images recorded by the first image recording arrangement (24a); selecting focusing areas depending on the obtained gazing directions; processing said at least one image of the environment so as to create a final image that is focused within areas defined by the focusing areas.

主权项

1. A method in a portable imaging device, the method comprising:
displaying an image to a user of the portable imaging device,
the image being an image of an environment surrounding the portable imaging device; detecting one or more directions of a face of the user to which the image is displayed; determining one or more focusing areas, of a plurality of focusing areas, in the image displayed by the portable imaging device,
the one or more focusing areas being determined based on the one or more directions of the face of the user that are detected and a correlation between a plurality of directions of the face of the user and the plurality of focusing areas in the image; and processing, based on the one or more focusing areas, the image to create a particular image,
processing the image including focusing one or more particular areas in the particular image based on the one or more focusing areas selected based on the one or more directions of the face.