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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 14, 2018
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Yosuke Fukai, Kawasaki, JP;

Kiyoshi Nitto, Saitama, JP;

Toshihiro Ogawa, Tokyo, JP;

Junichiro Iwamatsu, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/238 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 13/246 (2018.01); H04N 13/296 (2018.01); H04N 13/239 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23212 (2013.01); H04N 5/232 (2013.01); H04N 5/238 (2013.01); H04N 13/239 (2018.05); H04N 13/246 (2018.05); H04N 13/296 (2018.05);
Abstract

An electronic apparatus that achieves a function of a compound eye camera using a plurality of photographing modules and that improves AF accuracy even if environmental conditions vary or even if a state is changed by impact from outside. The electronic apparatus includes two photographing modules. A first obtaining unit performs contrast AF by one of the two photographing modules to obtain a first focus detection result. A second obtaining unit calculates an object distance from parallax information between the two photographing modules to obtain a second focus detection result. A correction unit corrects a calculation result of the object distance obtained by the second obtaining unit in a case where a state of at least one of the two photographing modules and a body of the electronic apparatus varies and where a difference between the first and second focus detection results is more than a threshold.


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