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Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 06, 2015
Applicant:

Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Hiroshi Endo, Saitama, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G02B 7/34 (2006.01); G03B 13/36 (2006.01); H04N 5/369 (2011.01); 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); G03B 2206/00 (2013.01); H04N 2101/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

An imaging device, includes: a sensor including first phase difference detecting pixels arranged in a row direction and second phase difference detecting pixels arranged in the row direction; a defocus amount calculating unit which calculates a correlated amount of a first output signal group and a second output signal group while shifting the first output signal group and the second output signal group in the row direction by an arbitrary amount to calculate a defocus amount from a first shift amount of the first output signal group and the second output signal group when the correlated amount is at a maximum. The defocus amount calculating unit changes an upper limit of a shift amount of the first output signal group and the second output signal group in accordance with at least one of an F value, a focal distance, and a position of a focus lens.


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