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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2013
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Akihiko Nagano, Ichihara, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
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.