Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image pickup apparatus and camera
- Patent Title (中): 摄像设备和相机
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Application No.: US12932977Application Date: 2011-03-09
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Publication No.: US08218017B2Publication Date: 2012-07-10
- Inventor: Keigo Matsuo , Hisashi Goto
- Applicant: Keigo Matsuo , Hisashi Goto
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Olympus Corporation
- Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP
- Priority: JP2010-060850 20100317
- Main IPC: H04N5/228
- IPC: H04N5/228 ; H04N3/14

Abstract:
At least some of the pixels on which color filters that give the largest weight to a brightness signal or color filters that have the highest transmittance among the plurality of color filters are provided are pixels for focus detection that are designed in such a way that the direction of incidence of light beams incident thereon is restricted, the pixels other than the pixels for focus detection are pixels for image picking-up that are designed in such a way that the degree of restriction placed on light beams incident thereon is smaller than that placed on light beams incident on the pixels for focus detection, the pixels for focus detection output at least a signal for ranging, the pixels for image picking-up output at least a signal for an image, and there are at least three pixels for focus detection in an area defined between a circle having its center at the center of any one of the pixels for focus detection and having a radius equal to 3.1 times the pixel pitch and a circle having its center at the center of the aforementioned any one of the pixels for focus detection and having a radius equal to 5.9 times the pixel pitch.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110228147A1 Image pickup apparatus and camera Public/Granted day:2011-09-22
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