Image pickup apparatus with autofocus function
AssigneeCasio Computer Co., Ltd.
InventorAkira Miyata
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Abstract
An image pickup apparatus comprises a setting unit which arbitrarily sets different auto focus search ranges, a selection unit which selects a desired auto focus search range from said different auto focus search ranges arbitrarily set by the setting unit, and an auto focus control unit which performs an auto focus operation based on the desired auto focus search range selected by the selection unit.
Claims18
An image pickup apparatus comprising:
- a setting unit which arbitrarily sets different auto focus search ranges;
- a selection unit which selects a desired auto focus search range from said different auto focus search ranges arbitrarily set by the setting unit;
- and
- an auto focus control unit which performs an auto focus operation based on the desired auto focus search range selected by the selection unit.
An image pickup apparatus comprising:
- means for arbitrarily setting different auto focus search ranges;
- means for selecting a desired auto focus search range from said different auto focus search ranges arbitrarily set by the setting means;
- and
- means for performing an auto focus operation based on the desired auto focus search range selected by the selecting means.
An image pickup method comprising:
- arbitrarily setting different auto focus search ranges;
- selecting a desired auto focus search range from said arbitrarily set different auto focus search ranges;
- and
- performing an auto focus operation based on the selected desired auto focus search range.
An article of manufacture comprising a computer usable medium having computer readable program code means embodied therein, the computer readable program code means comprising:
- computer readable program code means for causing a computer to arbitrarily set different auto focus search ranges;
- computer readable program code means for causing a computer to select a desired auto focus search range from said arbitrarily set different auto focus search ranges;
- and
- computer readable program code means for causing a computer to perform an auto focus operation based on the selected desired auto focus search range.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.