초록 ▼

The image of a subject is attained by image sensing and the image of the subject is displayed on the display screen of a digital still camera. The image of a face is detected from within the image of the subject and a face frame is displayed so as to enclose the detected image of the face. Autofocus

The image of a subject is attained by image sensing and the image of the subject is displayed on the display screen of a digital still camera. The image of a face is detected from within the image of the subject and a face frame is displayed so as to enclose the detected image of the face. Autofocus control and automatic exposure control is carried out using image data representing the image within the face frame. Image data representing the image of the subject in which the image of the face is in focus and has the appropriate brightness can be recorded on a memory card.

대표청구항 ▼

What is claimed is: 1. A digital still camera, comprising:an image sensing device for sensing an image of a subject and outputting image data representing the image of the subject;a display unit for displaying the image of the subject, which is represented by the image data that has been output from

What is claimed is: 1. A digital still camera, comprising:an image sensing device for sensing an image of a subject and outputting image data representing the image of the subject;a display unit for displaying the image of the subject, which is represented by the image data that has been output from said image sensing device, on a display screen;a face image detecting device for detecting a face image contained in the image of the subject represented by the image data that has been output from said image sensing device;a first display control device for controlling said display unit in such a manner that a face frame, which encloses the face image that has been detected by said face image detecting device, and a trimming frame having an aspect ratio corresponding to an aspect ratio of the display screen and including the face frame, are displayed on the image of the subject;a second display control device for controlling the display unit in such a manner that an image that is a result of enlarging an image within the trimming frame is displayed over an entirety of the display screen;a shutter-release button; anda recording control device for recording the image data, which has been output from said image sensing device, on a recording medium in response to a depression of said shutter-release button,wherein the face image detecting device resizes the image of the subject to gradually smaller sizes,wherein the face image detecting device detects the face image by using a rectangular search area to scan each of the resized images of the subject,wherein a frame corresponds to the rectangular search area and said frame is displayed on the image of the subject,wherein a face image that is inclined is detected by rotating the face image within the rectangular search area and making a comparison with results of prelearning image data,wherein, if the face image detected by said face image detecting device is inclined, then the face image is rotated by an amount of an inclination of the face image in a direction opposite the inclination of the face image, andwherein the face frame has a different aspect ratio than the aspect of the display screen.