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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2012
Tetsuo Mise, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Nemoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Eiji Shintaku, Tokyo, JP;
Manabu Yamauchi, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiki Ono, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuo Mise, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Nemoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Eiji Shintaku, Tokyo, JP;
Manabu Yamauchi, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiki Ono, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An imaging apparatus includes: a control unit configured to move a focusing lens, and detect a focus position; wherein the control unit executes auto-focus (AF) scan processing in which only a part of a range of movement of the focusing lens is set as a scan range, as first scan processing, and executes auto-focus (AF) scan processing in which a region including a region differing from the scan region of the first scan processing is set as a scan range, as second scan processing, in the event that a focus point is not detected in the first scan processing.