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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2019
Filed:
May. 24, 2017
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Kazunori Ishii, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/369 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23212 (2013.01); H04N 5/3696 (2013.01); H04N 5/36961 (2018.08);
Abstract
An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor including a pair of photoelectric conversion units for each of a plurality of microlenses arranged in a matrix of rows and columns, and capable of reading a signal from each row. According to a size of a focus detection area, a camera control unit regularly sets on the image sensor a first area having as many rows in which signals for use in focus detection are read from the image sensor as a first predetermined number of rows, and a second area having as many rows in which signals for use in focus detection are not read as a second predetermined number of rows.