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Patent No.:

US 9160918 B1

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Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2015

Filed:

Oct. 15, 2013
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Akihiko Nagano, Ichihara, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/202 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H01L 27/146 (2006.01); H04N 5/369 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23212 (2013.01); H01L 27/14627 (2013.01); H04N 5/3696 (2013.01);
Abstract

A focus detection apparatus comprises: an image sensor configured to receive a plurality of beams having passed through different exit pupil regions of an imaging optical system and output a pair of image signals corresponding to the different exit pupil regions; a calculation unit configured to obtain, from the pair of image signals, a spatial frequency at which a phase difference between a pair of images is minimized, and obtain an image shift amount between the pair of image signals from the spatial frequency; and a focus control unit configured to perform focus control by a phase difference detection method based on the image shift amount obtained by the calculation unit.


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Nagano, Akihiko. (2015). Focus control apparatus and method for performing focus control by phase difference detection, and image capturing apparatus (U.S. Patent No. 9160918). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9160918

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