| 摘要 |
The present invention provides an auto-tracking imaging apparatus capable of simultaneously acquiring a wide-angle image and a telephoto image of which the optical axes coincide with each other through a single imaging section and reliably capturing a tracking target object by using the telephoto image. An auto-tracking imaging apparatus according to a preferred aspect of the invention includes: an imaging optical system (12) that is formed of a central optical system, which is a wide-angle optical system disposed on a common optical axis, and an annular optical system which is a telephoto optical system disposed on the common optical axis; a directional sensor (17) that respectively pupil-divides rays incident through the wide-angle and telephoto optical systems so as to selectively receive the rays; a panning/tilting mechanism (32); an object detection section (50) that detects a tracking target object on the basis of at least a wide-angle image in wide-angle and telephoto images acquired from the directional sensor (17) by an image acquisition section (22); and a panning/tilting control section (60) that controls the panning/tilting mechanism 32 on the basis of information about a position of the object, which is detected by the object detection section (50), in the image. |
