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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2009
Applicant:
Hidenori Taniguchi, Zama, JP;
Inventor:
Hidenori Taniguchi, Zama, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/335 (2011.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G02B 7/34 (2006.01); G03B 13/36 (2006.01); H04N 5/369 (2011.01); H04N 9/04 (2006.01); H04N 101/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23212 (2013.01); G02B 7/34 (2013.01); G03B 13/36 (2013.01); H04N 5/3696 (2013.01); H04N 9/045 (2013.01); H04N 2101/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is provided an image pickup apparatus that has a mixture readout mode configured to mix and read outputs of a plurality of pixels in an image sensor (), when pixels to be mixed are image pickup pixels, they are mixed. When the pixels to be mixed contain a focus detection pixel, a signal of the image pickup pixel is not mixed with a signal of the focus detection pixel.