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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2013
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Kenkichi Hayashi, Saitama, JP;
Hiroshi Endo, Saitama, JP;
Noriko Kawamura, Saitama, JP;
Takashi Aoki, Saitama, JP;
Kazuki Inoue, Saitama, JP;
FujiFilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image pickup device includes: a color filter having repeatedly disposed basic array patterns configured with first and second array patterns disposed symmetrically about a point, wherein the first array pattern has a first filter placed at the 4 corner and center pixels of a 3×3 pixel square array, a second filter placed in a line at the horizontal direction center of the square array, and a third filter placed in a line at the vertical direction center of the square array, and the second array pattern has the same placement of the first filter as the first array pattern and has placement of the second filter and placement of the third filter swapped over to that of the first array pattern; and phase difference detection pixels placed at positions corresponding to the first filter at a top and bottom edge sides in the array pattern.