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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2016
Olympus Corporation, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuhito Nemoto, Tokyo, JP;
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image acquisition apparatus includes: an image acquisition device that includes normal image-acquisition pixels and a phase-difference detection pixel; a shift unit that shifts the image acquisition device; a phase-difference-pixel correcting unit that corrects a pixel value obtained by the phase-difference detection pixel to a value equivalent to values obtained by the normal image-acquisition pixels; a pixel storage unit that arranges and stores the pixel values after the correction at storage areas; and a high-resolution-image compositing unit that composites the stored pixel values to generate a high-resolution image. The shift unit shifts the image acquisition device such that pixel values that correspond to a specific color and that include the pixel value of a normal image-acquisition pixel exist at the same pixel position as the phase-difference detection pixel in the high-resolution image. The high-resolution-image compositing unit composites the pixel values corresponding to the specific color at a predetermined compositing ratio.