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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2020
Applicant:
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Shinichi Fujii, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 7/34 (2021.01); G02B 7/36 (2021.01); G03B 13/36 (2021.01); H04N 23/60 (2023.01); H04N 25/70 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 7/34 (2013.01); G02B 7/36 (2013.01); G03B 13/36 (2013.01); H04N 23/60 (2023.01); H04N 25/70 (2023.01);
Abstract
An imaging apparatus according to the present technology includes an imaging element including a light shielding pixel and a photodiode division pixel, and a defocus amount calculation unit that calculates a defocus amount using at least one of an output signal of the light shielding pixel and an output signal of the photodiode division pixel on the basis of an exposure amount.