Photographing apparatus, photographing method and recording medium on which photographing/display program is recorded

A photographing method comprising:

• picking up an optical image of an object by an image pickup section provided with pixels for receiving light on respective optical paths from the object divided in left and right directions through an image pickup optical system to obtain a picked-up image;
• recording and displaying the picked-up image;
• judging a state of focus of the image pickup optical system using a phase difference on an image pickup surface between image signals based on optical images respectively entering the divided pixels;
• and
• judging whether or not the phase difference of each area of the picked-up image to be recorded immediately before photographing is equal to or has not increased in comparison with the phase difference of the recorded picked-up image in a same area, to determine a candidate area for an enlarged display.

A photographing apparatus comprising:

• an imaging pickup device picking up an optical image of an object through an image pickup optical system to obtain a picked-up image, the image pickup device being provided with divided pixels for receiving light from respective optical paths from the object divided in different directions;
• a recording medium recording the picked-up image;
• a display displaying the picked-up image;
• and
• a focus judging processor judging a state of focus of the image pickup optical system using a phase difference on an image pickup surface between image signals based on optical images respectively entering the divided pixels, the focus judging processor judges whether or not the phase difference of each area of the picked-up image to be recorded immediately before photographing is equal to or has not increased in comparison with the phase difference of the recorded picked-up image in a same area, wherein
• when the focus judging processor judges that the phase difference of an area of the pick-up image to be recorded immediately before photographing is equal to or has not increased in comparison with the phase difference of the recorded picked-up image in the same area, the area of the recorded picked-up image is determined to be a candidate area for an enlarged display.

A photographing apparatus comprising:

• an image pickup device picking up an image of an object to obtain a picked-up image;
• a display displaying the picked-up image;
• and
• a processor comprising:
• a contrast judging section acquiring, for each of parts of a first picked-up image obtained by the image pickup device performing image pickup at a first timing, a reference contrast to be used for focus/unfocused judgment, the reference contrast being a point of focus determined by the contrast judging section to have a maximum value of contrast;
• the contrast judging section determining a recorded image contrast of each of parts of a second picked-up image obtained by the image pickup device performing image pickup for recording at a second timing later than the first timing;
• a focus judging section judging, for each of the parts of the second picked-up image, a state of focus of the second picked-up image by comparing the reference contrast with the recorded image contrast for each of the parts of the second picked-up image;
• and
• a display control section displaying a guide display on the display, the guide display identifying a candidate area within the second picked up image to be displayed on the display, the candidate area being a part of the second picked up image judged by the focus judging section to have a contrast equal to or higher than the reference contrast,
• wherein the state of focus of the second picked up image is judged by the focus judging section to be in a focused state when the contrast of the candidate area is equal to or higher than the reference contrast.

A photographing apparatus comprising:

• an image pickup device picking up an image of an object to obtain a picked-up image;
• a display displaying the picked-up image;
• and
• a processor comprising:
• a contrast judging section acquiring, for each of parts of a first picked-up image obtained by the image pickup device performing image pickup at a first timing, a reference contrast to be used for focus/unfocused judgment, the reference contrast being a point of focus determined by the contrast judging section to have a maximum value of contrast;
• the contrast judging section determining a recorded image contrast of each of parts of a second picked-up image obtained by the image pickup device performing image pickup for recording at a second timing prior to the first timing;
• a focus judging section judging, for each of the parts of the second picked-up image, a state of focus of the second picked-up image by comparing the reference contrast with the recorded image contrast for each of the parts of the second picked-up image;
• and
• a display control section displaying a guide display based on a judgment result judged by the focus judging section together with the second picked-up image on the display, the guide display identifying a candidate area to be enlargedly displayed on the display, the candidate area being a part of the second picked-up image judged by the focus judging section to have a contrast equal to or higher than the reference contrast,
• wherein the state of focus of the second picked up image is judged by the focus judging section to be in a focused state when the contrast of the candidate area is equal to or higher than the reference contrast.