Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image pickup device and image pickup apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 图像拾取装置和图像拾取装置
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Application No.: US12378046Application Date: 2009-02-09
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Publication No.: US08098322B2Publication Date: 2012-01-17
- Inventor: Yasutoshi Katsuda , Shinichi Fujii , Genta Yagyu
- Applicant: Yasutoshi Katsuda , Shinichi Fujii , Genta Yagyu
- Applicant Address: JP
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP
- Agency: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik, LLP
- Priority: JP2008-030398 20080212
- Main IPC: G03B13/36
- IPC: G03B13/36

Abstract:
An image pickup device includes a group of photoelectric conversion cells that output distance-measurement signals for phase difference detection. Each photoelectric conversion cell includes a photodetector and a pupil restricting unit. The photodetector generates the distance-measurement signal. The pupil restricting unit restricts a size of a pupil area, from which arrival light has exited, to a predetermined size in an exit pupil of a taking optical system, object light exiting from the exit pupil of the taking optical system, the arrival light arriving at the photodetector. The predetermined size is less than half a size of an entire area of the exit pupil.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090225217A1 Image pickup device and image pickup apparatus Public/Granted day:2009-09-10
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