- Patent Title: Image pickup device, image pickup apparatus, image pickup apparatus control method and computer-readable non-transitory recording medium in which processing program is recorded
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Application No.: US16168680Application Date: 2018-10-23
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Publication No.: US10582113B2Publication Date: 2020-03-03
- Inventor: Ryo Hatakeyama , Yoshinao Shimada , Tetsuo Kikuchi
- Applicant: Olympus Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Olympus Corporation
- Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Pokotylo Patent Service
- Agent John C. Pokotylo
- Priority: JP2017-221727 20171117
- Main IPC: H04N5/232
- IPC: H04N5/232 ; H04N9/04 ; H04N5/3745

Abstract:
An image pickup device includes: a pixel area where each of color image pixels arrayed in a matrix is divided into a plurality of focus detection pixels; a vertical scanning circuit and a device control circuit configured to read from the pixel area a first frame capable of constituting a color image and a second frame including phase difference information; a digital processing circuit configured to reduce color information of the second frame to reduce an amount of data; and an output circuit configured to output the first frame and the second frame via a transmission route with a number of lanes that is not the smaller of a first number-of-lanes and a second number-of-lanes required to output the first frame and the second frame, respectively.
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