ELECTRONIC CAMERA AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD

摘要

To provide an electronic camera and an image processing method which enable highly accurate tracking processing even in the case of an object changing appearance. The electronic camera includes: a tracking processing unit (137) which performs a search in a frame using a color feature amount of an object to be tracked, calculates a first evaluation value indicating a degree of matching between an image of the search result and the object, and determines a target area estimated to include the image of the object based on the first evaluation value; an update detection circuit (139) which performs a search in the frame using a shape feature amount of the object to be tracked, calculates a second evaluation value indicating a degree of matching between an image of the search result and the image of the object, and determines an update area for updating the first feature amount based on the second evaluation value; an update determination circuit (140) which determines whether or not to update the first feature amount, depending on whether or not the first evaluation value or the second evaluation value satisfies a predetermined condition; and a tracking result drawing circuit (144) draws an outer frame of the target area when determined not to update, and draws an outer frame of the update area when determined to update.