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Abstract

An electronic camera includes an imager. An imager has an imaging surface capturing an optical image representing a scene, and repeatedly outputs an electronic image corresponding to the optical image. A searcher searches for a characteristic image representing a characteristic portion of a specific object from the electronic image outputted from the imager. A detector detects a direction of the specific object based on a distortion of the characteristic image detected by the searcher. An assigner assigns an adjustment area to a position in which an offset inhibiting a difference between the direction detected by the detector and a predetermined direction is appended, by using a position covering the characteristic image detected by the searcher as a reference. An adjuster adjusts an imaging condition based on a partial image belonging to the adjustment area out of the electronic image outputted from the imager.

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