Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image capturing apparatus and control method thereof
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Application No.: US15374779Application Date: 2016-12-09
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Publication No.: US10225494B2Publication Date: 2019-03-05
- Inventor: Minoru Hirose
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Canon U.S.A., Inc. IP Division
- Priority: JP2015-243320 20151214
- Main IPC: H04N5/353
- IPC: H04N5/353 ; H04N5/232 ; H04N5/235 ; H04N5/374 ; H04N5/378 ; H04N5/347 ; H04N5/361 ; H04N5/3745

Abstract:
Unit pixels that perform photoelectric conversion of light from an object are arrayed in a matrix manner. An image sensor having the unit pixels outputs a first signal for image generation based on an electric charge generated in each of the unit pixels and a second signal for phase difference detection based on an electric charge generated in a partial region of each of the unit pixels. A scanner controls scanning for reading out the first signal and the second signal for each row. The scanner performs first scanning by which the first signal is read out by being thinned out in a first period, and second scanning by which the second signal is read out in a row, in which the first signal is not read out in the first scanning, by being thinned out in each second period with a predetermined thinning rate.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170171477A1 IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF Public/Granted day:2017-06-15
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