Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Depth measurement apparatus, imaging apparatus, and method of controlling depth measurement apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 深度测量装置,成像装置和深度测量装置的控制方法
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Application No.: US14291503Application Date: 2014-05-30
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Publication No.: US09402069B2Publication Date: 2016-07-26
- Inventor: Akinari Takagi
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
- Priority: JP2013-121178 20130607
- Main IPC: H04N13/02
- IPC: H04N13/02 ; H04N5/357 ; H04N5/217 ; H04N5/228 ; H04N5/369

Abstract:
A depth measurement apparatus including ranging pixels each having photoelectric conversion units for receiving light fluxes that have respectively passed through first and second pupil regions, a reading unit shared by the photoelectric conversion units, and a control unit for controlling the ranging operation wherein a signal charge accumulated in one of the photoelectric conversion units is output as a first signal and a second signal obtained by adding a signal charge accumulated in the other photoelectric conversion unit to the first signal is output, the signal charge accumulated in the other photoelectric conversion unit is acquired based on a difference between the first and second signals after noise reduction, and the signal charge of the photoelectric conversion unit receiving flux with a higher transmittance is read first.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140362262A1 DEPTH MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING DEPTH MEASUREMENT APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2014-12-11
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