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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2017
Olympus Corporation, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, JP;
Atsuro Okazawa, Hino, JP;
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image pickup apparatus of the present invention includes: an image pickup optical system configured to form a subject image; an image pickup device configured to photoelectrically convert the subject image formed by the image pickup optical system, wherein part of pixels in a region provided with image formation pixels arranged in a matrix are arranged as focus detection pixels; an optical influence estimation unit configured to use output signals from the image formation pixels, output signals from the focus detection pixels, and two-dimensional pixel position information of the focus detection pixels to estimate a level of influence of vignetting caused by the image optical system according to an image height; and an optical influence correction unit configured to execute image processing with different details that vary according to an estimation result of the optical influence estimation unit.