- Patent Title: Focus detection apparatus and method, and image capturing apparatus
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Application No.: US15461805Application Date: 2017-03-17
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Publication No.: US10455142B2Publication Date: 2019-10-22
- Inventor: Yoshihito Tamaki , Nobutaka Mizuno
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.
- Priority: JP2016-056112 20160318
- Main IPC: H04N5/232
- IPC: H04N5/232 ; H04N9/07 ; H04N9/04 ; H04N5/369

Abstract:
A focus detection apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit that acquires, for each color, a correction value for correcting a pair of focus detection signals of respective colors acquired from a color image sensor based on color sensitivity information unique to the color image sensor which includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions for each of a plurality of microlenses, and performing photoelectric conversion on light entering via an imaging optical system to output an electric signal; a correction unit that corrects each focus detection signal by using the correction value; a generation unit that processes the pair of corrected focus detection signals of the respective colors, and generates a pair of focus detection signals; and a focus detection unit that detects an evaluation value based on the pair of focus detection signals.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170272643A1 FOCUS DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2017-09-21
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