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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2016
Filed:
May. 15, 2015
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiharu Ueda, Machida, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image pickup apparatusincludes an image pickup elementincluding a plurality of image pickup pixels that perform a photoelectric conversion for an image formed by a light beam from an image pickup optical system and a plurality of focus detection pixels that perform a photoelectric conversion for an image formed by a divided light beam of the light beam from the image pickup optical system, and a DSPconfigured to perform a shading correction for a pixel signal from the image pickup element, the image pickup elementgenerates a first pixel signal by adding signals from the plurality of image pickup pixels, and generates a second pixel signal without adding a signal from the focus detection pixel, and the DSPperforms the shading correction for the first pixel signal and the second pixel signal using correction data different from each other.