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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2015
Applicant:
Olympus Corporation, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yoshinao Shimada, Hino, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/347 (2011.01); H04N 5/369 (2011.01); H04N 5/378 (2011.01); H03M 1/12 (2006.01); H03M 1/46 (2006.01); H04N 9/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/3696 (2013.01); H04N 5/347 (2013.01); H03M 1/124 (2013.01); H03M 1/468 (2013.01); H04N 5/378 (2013.01); H04N 9/045 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image pickup device includes a pixel unit which generates pixel signals for image and pixel signals for focus detection, a first memory unit which stores the pixel signals for image, a second memory unit which stores the pixel signals for focus detection, a pixel signal synthesizing unit which synthesizes the pixel signals for image from a plurality of pixel signals, and an image signal outputting unit which outputs the pixel signals for image synthesized by the pixel signal synthesizing unit and the pixel signals for focus detection stored in the second memory.