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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2018
Olympus Corporation, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, JP;
Ryo Hatakeyama, Hino, JP;
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image pickup apparatus including: an image pickup device including a pixel region in which image pixels corresponding to microlenses are arrayed in a matrix, each of the image pixels being divided into a plurality of focus detection pixels configured to generate respective photoelectric conversion signals; and a control circuit configured to control a cycle in a column direction of first rows in which photoelectric conversion signals in an image pixel are added up to generate an image pixel signal, and second rows in which both of a pair of the focus detection pixel signals or one of the pair of the focus detection pixel signals and the image pixel signal are generated and read, in a frame is provided.