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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:
Jun. 08, 2021

Filed:

Jun. 22, 2018
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Akihiko Kanda, Kawasaki, JP;

Koichi Fukuda, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G06T 7/50 (2017.01); G06T 7/80 (2017.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232122 (2018.08); G06T 5/002 (2013.01); G06T 5/003 (2013.01); G06T 7/50 (2017.01); G06T 7/80 (2017.01); H04N 5/23229 (2013.01); H04N 5/232125 (2018.08); G06T 2207/20221 (2013.01);
Abstract

An imaging element of an imaging apparatus has a configuration in which a plurality of pixels provided with a plurality of photoelectric conversion units for receiving light fluxes transmitting each of different pupil partial regions of an image forming optical system are arrayed. A CPU performs control to acquire a plurality of viewpoint images corresponding to different pupil partial regions from the imaging element and to generate output images using an image processing unit. The CPU and the image processing unit sets a detection range of an image shift amount using a photographing condition of an input image and a conversion coefficient for a conversion an image shift amount to a defocus amount, generates an image shift amount distribution of the detection range on the basis of a plurality of viewpoint images, and generates an image shift difference amount distribution. Image processing in accordance with the image shift amount distribution is performed to generate refocused images as output images.


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