Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Daisuke Toguchi

Yoshinobu Sato

Akemi Kikuchi

Provided are an image pickup apparatus and a method of controlling the image pickup apparatus, capable of quickly determining possibility of refocusing for bringing each of objects located at different view angle positions on a photographed image into focus. The image pickup apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image photographed by using an image pickup element having a pupil-division pixel area together with photographing information of an optical system at a time of photographing, an object detecting unit configured to calculate an object area of an object and to calculate an object distance corresponding to a depth distance to the object, and a refocusing possibility determining unit configured to determine possibility of refocusing for bringing the object into focus by calculating a refocusable view angle range and determining whether or not the object area is included in the refocusable view angle range through comparison.

Image pickup apparatus and method of controlling the same

An imaging apparatus according to the present invention includes: an imaging unit configured to acquire captured image data; and a control unit configured to sequentially display, in response to a first user operation, a predetermined number of captured image data obtained by imaging after a timing at which the first user operation has been performed, in an order starting from the newest imaging time of the captured image data on a display unit.

Imaging apparatus and control method thereof

In an image capturing apparatus, a generation unit performs image processing to generate a synchronizing signal for an image sensor, an image generation unit generates image data using an electric signal obtained from the image sensor, and a display control unit reads out the image data stored in a storage unit and displays it on a display unit. The generation unit controls a phase of the synchronizing signal such that the display processing starts when the image processing for a predetermined volume of image data is finished if a frame period (first period) of the image sensor is shorter than a frame period (second period) of the display control unit, and that a predetermined volume of unprocessed image data is left in the storage unit when the image processing for one frame is finished if the first period is not shorter than the second period.

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Daisuke Toguchi