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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2016
Filed:
May. 19, 2015
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
It is intended to provide an imaging apparatus that enables proper exposure of phase difference detection pixels and thereby makes it possible to perform phase difference autofocusing with high accuracy. A system control unitselects phase difference detection pixels from phase difference detection pixelsR andL existing in a selected phase difference detection areaaccording to a position of the selected phase difference detection areain a row direction X, and determines exposure conditions based on output signals of the selected phase difference detection pixels. A defocus amount calculation unitcalculates a defocus amount using output signals of the phase difference detection pixelsR andL existing in the selected phase difference detection areathat are part of a shot image signal produced by shooting that is performed by an imaging deviceunder the exposure conditions determined by the exposure determining unit