IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To optimize efficiency of subject detection processing in accordance with the subject's mobility.

SOLUTION: A digital camera 1 is provided with: an imaging means for obtaining image data successively by imaging an image of a subject; a subject detecting means for detecting a subject in prescribed image data to be obtained by the imaging means; an estimating means for estimating the detected subject's mobility; a search range setting means for setting a search range for the subject detecting means to detect the subject on the basis of the estimated the subject's mobility; and a subject detection control means for controlling the subject detecting means so as to detect a subject within the search range set by the search range setting means in the image data obtained by the imaging means.

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