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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2014
Applicant:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/243 (2006.01); H04N 5/217 (2011.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/369 (2011.01); H04N 9/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/243 (2013.01); H04N 5/217 (2013.01); H04N 5/23212 (2013.01); H04N 5/3696 (2013.01); H04N 9/045 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image processing apparatus is designed to process pixel outputs of an imaging element including imaging pixels and phase-difference detecting pixels. The apparatus includes a pixel mixing unit and an image processing unit. The pixel mixing unit mixes the pixel outputs. The image processing unit corrects the pixel outputs to prevent the phase-difference detecting pixels from degrading image quality, by using at least one of information selected from a group consisting of the number of mixed pixel outputs of phase-difference detecting pixels having the same opening direction and the number of mixed pixel outputs of imaging pixels having the same opening direction.