IMAGING APPARATUS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a high-functionality imaging apparatus capable of performing focus adjustment on an object which can be arbitrarily set. SOLUTION: The imaging apparatus outputs an electric image signal of the object and comprises; an imaging optical system that includes a focusing lens group for performing focus adjustment and forms an optical image of the object; an imaging device that captures the optical image of the object and converts the optical image into an electric image signal; an image dividing part that divides the image signal into a plurality of areas; a color characteristic calculation part that calculates a color characteristic from the image signal for each of the areas; a preset color characteristic setting part that previously sets a preset color characteristic; an area selection part that selects at least one of the areas based on a result of a comparison between the preset color characteristic and each color characteristic calculated by the color characteristic calculation part; a focus information calculation part that calculates focus information of the imaging optical system for the selected area; and a lens driving part that drives the focusing lens group in a direction of an optical axis based on the focus information. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI