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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2015
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Takahiro Fukuhara, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01); G02B 7/34 (2006.01); H04N 5/369 (2011.01); G02B 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23212 (2013.01); G02B 7/34 (2013.01); H04N 5/2355 (2013.01); H04N 5/3696 (2013.01); G02B 3/0056 (2013.01);
Abstract
An imaging device includes an imaging lens; an imaging element which contains object imaging pixels and focal point detection pixels; and a lens array configured by micro lenses being arranged on a two-dimensional plane, and arranged on a front surface of an imaging surface of the imaging element to be distanced therefrom.