| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that an object of a main interest is not focused at all because a face can not be detected in many cases when only moving the focus lens to a predetermined lens position to perform pan focusing in a case where the depth of field of the photographing lens is small. <P>SOLUTION: An image pickup apparatus includes a face detection unit configured to detect the face portion of the object from respective image data acquired while the focus lens is moved to a plurality of movement positions, and a changing unit configured to change the movement position of the focus lens when image data for performing face detection processing are acquired when the depth of field is changed. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT |
