Photographing apparatus

摘要

A photographing apparatus including an imaging unit to photograph a subject to acquire image data; an object detection unit to detect a predetermined object from the image data; and a detection condition setting unit to allow a detection condition for the object detection unit to be set according to a photographing mode.

主权项

1. A photographing apparatus comprising:
an imaging unit to photograph a subject to acquire image data; an object detection unit to detect a predetermined object from the image data; and a detection condition setting unit to allow a detection condition for the object detection unit to be set according to a photographing mode that is selected from a plurality of preexisting photographing modes, wherein the detection condition limits at least one of an orientation of the object, a size of the object, an inclination of the object and a detection area, said plurality of preexisting photographing modes include two or more modes from among:
a person mode,a sports mode,a party mode,a landscape mode, anda night-scene mode, and the selected photographing mode is selected from said plurality of preexisting photographing modes, and the detection condition setting unit sets the detection condition by selecting, for each selected photographing mode from said plurality of preexisting photographing modes, one of:
a detection rate-priority,a detection speed-priority, anda detection-off in which said detection rate-priority and said detection speed-priority are unselected, and wherein the detection condition setting unit sets the detection condition before the photographing apparatus photographs the subject.