IPC분류정보
국가/구분 |
United States(US) Patent
등록
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국제특허분류(IPC7판) |
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출원번호 |
US-0834159
(2010-07-12)
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등록번호 |
US-8417106
(2013-04-09)
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우선권정보 |
JP-2009-165977 (2009-07-14); JP-2010-153833 (2010-07-06) |
발명자
/ 주소 |
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출원인 / 주소 |
- Pentax Ricoh Imaging Company, Ltd.
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대리인 / 주소 |
Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
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인용정보 |
피인용 횟수 :
1 인용 특허 :
25 |
초록
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A focus detection device, which detects a defocus amount based on a phase difference between a pair of object images that are obtained by pupil division and projected onto a pair of areas on a line sensor, includes a parallel line sensor having two line sensor arrays arranged adjacently in parallel,
A focus detection device, which detects a defocus amount based on a phase difference between a pair of object images that are obtained by pupil division and projected onto a pair of areas on a line sensor, includes a parallel line sensor having two line sensor arrays arranged adjacently in parallel, and a correction calculator which corrects the defocus amount according to a phase difference between output signals of the two line sensor arrays of the parallel line sensor.
대표청구항
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1. A focus detection device, which detects a defocus amount based on a phase difference between a pair of object images that are obtained by pupil division and projected onto a pair of areas on a line sensor, comprising: a parallel line sensor, constituting said line sensor, having two line sensor a
1. A focus detection device, which detects a defocus amount based on a phase difference between a pair of object images that are obtained by pupil division and projected onto a pair of areas on a line sensor, comprising: a parallel line sensor, constituting said line sensor, having two line sensor arrays arranged adjacently and in parallel to each other; anda correction calculator which corrects the defocus amount based on error correction information, wherein:the error correction information in which a focus detection error amount, which changes in accordance with the object image, corresponds to a phase difference between output signals of the two line sensor arrays of said parallel line sensor, andsaid correction calculator discriminates influence of an edge angle of the object image from the phase difference between the output signals of the two line sensor arrays of said parallel line sensor and corrects the defocus amount according to the discriminated edge angle. 2. The focus detection device according to claim 1, wherein said focus detection error amount is an error amount that changes in accordance with the edge angle of the object image. 3. The focus detection device according to claim 1, wherein said focus detection error amount is detected via measurement. 4. A focus detection device, which detects a defocus amount based on a phase difference between a pair of object images that are obtained by pupil division and projected onto a pair of focus detection areas on a line sensor, comprising: a pair of horizontal parallel line sensors, each of which constitutes said line sensor, disposed in the horizontal direction for use in vertical line detection and a pair of vertical parallel line sensors, each of which constitutes said line sensor, disposed in the vertical direction for use in horizontal line detection, wherein each said parallel line sensor includes two line sensor arrays that are arranged adjacently in parallel to each other;a discriminator which discriminates influence of an edge angle of the object image calculated from a phase difference between output signals of said two line sensor arrays of at least one said parallel line sensor;a selector, which selects a sensor output of one of said pair of horizontal parallel line sensors and said pair of vertical parallel line sensors, used in defocus calculation, according to the discriminated influence of the edge angle; anda calculator, which performs a defocus calculation based on said selected sensor output. 5. The focus detection device according to claim 4, wherein said one of the pair of horizontal parallel line sensors and the pair of vertical parallel line sensors, of which the sensor output is selected by said selector, has a smaller focal-shift amount in influence of the edge angle discriminated by the discriminator than that of the other of said pair of horizontal parallel line sensors and said pair of vertical parallel line sensors. 6. The focus detection device according to claim 4, wherein said selector selects both the pair of horizontal parallel line sensors and the pair of vertical parallel line sensors at influence of the edge angle when respective focal-shift amounts thereof fall within a predetermined value, and the calculator calculates an average value of a result of defocus calculation using the output of the pair of horizontal parallel line sensors and the result of defocus calculation using the output of the pair of vertical parallel line sensors, wherein said average value is obtained as a defocus amount. 7. A focus detection device, which detects a defocus amount based on a phase difference between a pair of object images that are obtained by pupil division and projected onto a pair of areas on a line sensor, the focus detection device comprising: a parallel line sensor composed of two line sensor arrays arranged adjacently and in parallel to each other; anda correction calculator that corrects the defocus amount based on error correction information, wherein:the defocus amount varies in accordance with an edge angle of the object images; andthe error correction information in which a focus detection error amount, which changes in accordance with the object image, corresponds to the phase difference between the output finals of the two line sensor arrays of the parallel line sensor.
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