Electronic camera

An imaging control program recorded on a non-transitory recording medium in order to control an electronic camera provided with an imager, having an imaging surface capturing an optical image representing a scene, which repeatedly outputs an electronic image corresponding to the optical image, the program causing a processor of the electronic camera to perform the steps, comprising:

• an adjusting step of adjusting an imaging condition with reference to a partial image belonging to an adjustment area assigned to said imaging surface out of the electronic image outputted from said imager;
• a searching step of repeatedly searching for a specific object image from the electronic image outputted from said imager;
• an updating step of updating an arrangement of said adjustment area in a manner different depending on an attribute of the specific object image detected by said searching step;
• a setting step of setting the arrangement of said adjustment area to a predetermined arrangement when a time period during which non-detection of said searching step continues has reached a threshold value;
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• a controlling step of controlling a magnitude of the threshold value so that the magnitude increases as a specific object equivalent to the specific object image detected by said searching step is close to a center of the scene.

An electronic camera, comprising:

• an imager, having an imaging surface capturing an optical image representing a scene, which repeatedly outputs an electronic image corresponding to the optical image;
• an adjuster which adjusts an imaging condition with reference to a partial image belonging to an adjustment area assigned to said imaging surface out of the electronic image outputted from said imager;
• a searcher which repeatedly searches for an object image representing a specific object from the electronic image outputted from said imager;
• an updater which updates an arrangement of said adjustment area in a manner different depending on an attribute of the object image detected by said searcher;
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• a setter which sets the arrangement of said adjustment area to a predetermined arrangement when a time period during which non-detection of said searcher continues has reached a threshold value increasing as the specific object image is close to a center of the scene.