Image capturing apparatus, main subject position determination method, and computer-readable medium storing program
AssigneeFuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
InventorsHiroshi Fukuda, Atsuhiko Ishihara, Koichi Sakamoto, Hisayoshi Tsubaki, Mikio Watanabe
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Abstract
An image capturing apparatus for accurately determining a position of a main subject on an image. The image capturing apparatus for capturing a subject includes an image pick-up unit for capturing a preliminary image and a final image; a main subject recognition unit for recognizing a main subject from the subject on the preliminary image; and a main subject position determination unit for determining a position of the main subject on the final image.
Claims14
An image capturing apparatus for capturing a subject, comprising:
- an image pick-up unit for capturing a first image and a second image;
- a main subject recognition unit for recognizing a main subject from the subject on the first image;
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- a main subject position determination unit for determining a position of the main subject on the second image.
A main subject position determination method for determining a position of a main subject from a subject on an image, comprising steps of:
- capturing a first image;
- recognizing a main subject from the subject on the first image captured in said first image capturing step;
- capturing a second image;
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- determining a position of the main subject on the second image.
A computer readable medium storing thereon a program for an image capturing apparatus which captures a subject, the program comprising:
- an image pick-up module for allowing the image capturing apparatus to capture a first image and a second image;
- a main subject recognition module for allowing the image capturing apparatus to recognize a main subject from the subject on the first image;
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- a main subject position determination module for allowing the image capturing apparatus to determine a position of the main subject on the second image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.