Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging apparatus, and control method thereof
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Application No.: US14971362Application Date: 2015-12-16
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Publication No.: US09781331B2Publication Date: 2017-10-03
- Inventor: Yosuke Mine
- 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: JP2014-257710 20141219
- Main IPC: H04N5/232
- IPC: H04N5/232 ; G06K9/46 ; H04N5/225 ; G02B27/14 ; G02B27/16 ; G06K9/00 ; H04N9/04

Abstract:
Automatic focusing where variance in the focus due to a relative shift in mounted positions of sensors is suppressed is performed. An imaging apparatus including a photometric sensor and a ranging sensor includes an image data generating unit configured to generate image data by using the photometric sensor, a detection unit configured to detect a region including an object from the image data generated by the image data generating unit, a determination unit configured to divide the image data into blocks corresponding to discretely arranged ranging points of the ranging sensor, and to determine a proportion of an area occupied by the region including the object for each block, and a focusing unit configured to focus on a ranging point of the ranging sensor corresponding to a block where the area occupied by the region including the object is at a predetermined proportion or more.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160182812A1 IMAGING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF Public/Granted day:2016-06-23
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