Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Focus detection device, focus adjustment device, and camera
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Application No.: US15113252Application Date: 2015-01-28
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Publication No.: US10404904B2Publication Date: 2019-09-03
- Inventor: Toru Iwane
- Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oliff PLC
- Priority: JP2014-013483 20140128
- International Application: PCT/JP2015/052282 WO 20150128
- International Announcement: WO2015/115452 WO 20150806
- Main IPC: H04N5/232
- IPC: H04N5/232 ; G02B7/09 ; G02B3/00 ; G02B7/34 ; G03B13/36 ; G03B19/12

Abstract:
A focus detection device includes: an image capture unit that has a plurality of light receiving units provided for each of a plurality of micro lenses, and that captures image by light from a subject that has passed through an optical system; and a focus detection unit that detects a focusing state of the optical system according to a relative positional deviation of the images of the subject with respect to the micro lenses, with the image of the subject being created by each of the micro lenses and being captured by the image capture unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170104918A1 FOCAL POINT DETECTION DEVICE, FOCAL POINT ADJUSTEMENT DEVICE, AND CAMERA Public/Granted day:2017-04-13
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