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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2013
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Akifumi Mizukami, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 13/20 (2006.01); G03B 13/36 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G02B 7/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 13/20 (2013.01); G02B 7/282 (2013.01); G03B 13/36 (2013.01); H04N 5/23212 (2013.01); H04N 5/23293 (2013.01);
Abstract
An imaging apparatus which includes a range-finding region arrangement unit which arranges range-finding regions of which region sizes are different by hierarchizing thereof, a range-finding region selection unit which selects the range-finding region in a predetermined order from the arranged range-finding regions, and a control unit which performs a focusing operation by generating an evaluation value which denotes degree of focusing with respect to the range-finding regions which are selected in the range-finding region selection unit, and controlling a position of a focus lens based on the evaluation value.