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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2016
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Satoshi Shoda, Utsunomiya, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 19/85 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23212 (2013.01); H04N 19/85 (2014.11);
Abstract
An image pickup apparatus, including: a compression unit configured to perform compression processing on image data; an expansion unit configured to perform expansion processing on the image data that has been subjected to the compression processing based on a coding parameter used for the compression processing on the image data; and a processing unit configured to perform autofocus processing based on the image data that has been subjected to the expansion processing, the autofocus processing being adaptively performed based on the coding parameter.