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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:
Sep. 07, 2021

Filed:

Feb. 07, 2020
Applicant:

Olympus Corporation, Hachioji, JP;

Inventors:

Akira Ugawa, Tokyo, JP;

Tetsuo Kikuchi, Hachioji, JP;

Assignee:

Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 9/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232122 (2018.08); H04N 9/0455 (2018.08);
Abstract

An imaging device, comprising an image sensor having image pixels and phase difference pixels, a phase difference detection section that detects a phase difference based on pixel data of the phase difference pixels, a pixel data calculation section that calculates pixel data of virtual imaging pixels at positions of the phase difference pixels, a degree of coincidence calculation section that calculates a degree of coincidence between each pixel data of the virtual imaging pixels that has been calculated, a reliability determination section that determines reliability of the phase difference detection result in accordance with the degree of coincidence, and a focus adjustment section that performs focus adjustment based on the phase difference detection result and the reliability.


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