Image pickup apparatus and method, and image-pickup control computer program
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroyuki Ogino
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Abstract
In an image pickup apparatus and method, and an image-pickup control computer program, a photographing optical system is driven, when a plurality of objects are present at different distances in a same detection field of view for identifying an object to be focused, so as to be focused on each of the plurality of objects, and a photographing operation is performed at each position of the photographing optical system driven so as to be focused on each of the plurality of objects.
Claims16
An image pickup apparatus comprising:
- a focus adjusting unit for driving, when a plurality of objects are present at different distances in a same detection field of view for identifying an object to be focused, a photographing optical system so as to be focused on each of the plurality of objects;
- and
- a photographing unit for performing a photographing operation at each position of the photographing optical system driven by said focus adjusting unit so as to be focused on each of the plurality of objects.
An image pickup method comprising the steps of:
- driving, when a plurality of objects are present at different distances in a same detection field of view for identifying an object to be focused, a photographing optical system so as to be focused on each of the plurality of objects;
- and
- performing a photographing operation at each position of the photographing optical system driven so as to be focused on each of the plurality of objects.
An image-pickup control computer program representing a method comprising the steps of:
- driving, when a plurality of objects are present at different distances in a same detection field of view for identifying an object to be focused, a photographing optical system so as to be focused on each of the plurality of objects;
- and
- performing a photographing operation at each position of the photographing optical system driven so as to be focused on each of the plurality of objects.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.