The patent relate to being able to track an object using the hybrid system which was patented some time ago.
There is the object of this invention in providing the imaging device which made it possible to photo the image focused on the tracking object, even when an object to track separates from the useful range of an AF sensor at the time of sequential-photographs photographing.
The characteristics of having a control means by which the aforementioned distance measurement means and the ranging operation by the aforementioned image sensor are switched, and the aforementioned optical finder and the aforementioned electronic view finder are simultaneously switched for the display of a finder based on the position information on the object detected by the aforementioned object detecting means are carried out.
So, when a object cannot be tracked due to area limitations of the conventional phase detect AF system, the mirror will flip up and track to the edge of the sensor using the signal from the sensor (DPAF??)
According to the present invention, the tracking range of an object can be extended at the time of the sequential-photographs photographing by an object tracking function. In the single-lens reflex camera which enables the change of an optical finder and an electronic view finder, even if it usually switches from photographing to mirror rise photographing, a photographer can be photoed by switching from an optical finder to an electronic view finder with the same attitude.