Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110076001 | IMAGING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC CAMERA - An imaging device includes an arrayed imaging element group configured to receive light passing through a photographic lens, wherein the imaging element group includes a plurality of photographic elements used for photographic image data generation and a plurality of phase difference detection elements used for phase difference detection for focus detection of the photographic lens, each of the photographic elements and each of the phase difference detection elements include: an on-chip microlens configured to collect light passing through the photographic lens; a photoelectric conversion element configured to receive the light passing through the on-chip microlens; and an internal microlens disposed between the on-chip microlens and the photoelectric conversion element, the photographic element is configured such that an optical axis of the on-chip microlens matches an optical axis of the internal microlens, and the phase difference detection element is configured such that the optical axis of the on-chip microlens is shifted from the optical axis of the internal microlens. | 03-31-2011 |
20130010086 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING DEVICE AND VIEWPOINT IMAGE RESTORATION METHOD - A three-dimensional imaging device ( | 01-10-2013 |
20130100338 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device of an aspect of the invention, when reading, as voltage signals, signal charges output from a first pixel receiving a light on a partial area biased to a predetermined direction from a light axis of a light flux passing an exit pupil of an imaging optical system and a second pixel arranged so as to be adjacent to the first pixel and receiving a light on a partial area biased to an opposite direction to the predetermined direction from the light axis, combines and reads the signal charges of adjacent first-number pixels with respect to the first pixel and the second pixel, and calculates an arithmetic mean of adjacent second-number voltage signals with respect to the combined and read voltage signals of the first pixel and the second pixel. | 04-25-2013 |
20130342660 | 3D IMAGE TAKING APPARATUS - A 3D image taking apparatus includes: a monocular photographic lens; a first and second solid-state imaging devices that receive one part and another part of incident light coming from a subject via the photographic lens in parallel; a light splitting member that splits the incident light into the one part and the other part of the incident light using a boundary region that extends perpendicularly to an optical axis, and causes the one part and the other part of the incident light to enter the first and second solid-state imaging devices, respectively; a parallax separation member that prevents a part of the incident light entering the boundary region from entering the first and second solid-state imaging devices; and an image processing unit that generates 3D image data of the subject by performing image processing on respective output signals of the first and second solid-state imaging devices. | 12-26-2013 |
20140022422 | COLOR IMAGING ELEMENT, IMAGING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A CONTROL PROGRAM FOR IMAGING DEVICE - Interpolation precision of phase difference detection pixels is raised. An image pickup device includes: a color filter disposed with a repeating basic array pattern configured by 3×3 pixel square arrays of a first array pattern and a second array pattern disposed symmetrically about a point; a first phase difference detection pixel that is placed at a position of a pixel corresponding to 1 corner portion out of the 4 corner portions of at least one array pattern in 1 pair of the first array pattern and the second array pattern out of 2 pairs of the first array pattern and the second array pattern configuring the basic array pattern; and a second phase difference detection pixel that is placed at a position of a pixel corresponding to 1 corner portion out of the 4 corner portions in the array pattern, out of the first array pattern. | 01-23-2014 |
20140022614 | COLOR IMAGING ELEMENT, IMAGING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A CONTROL PROGRAM FOR IMAGING DEVICE - The precision of phase difference AF control is raised. An image pickup device includes a color filter that is provided with repeatedly disposed basic array patterns configured with a first array pattern and a second array pattern disposed symmetrically about a point, wherein the first array pattern includes a first filter placed over 2×2 pixels at the top left and a pixel at the bottom right of a 3×3 square array, a second filter placed over a right end pixel of a vertical direction center line of the square array and over a left end pixel a lower edge line, and a third filter placed over a pixel at the right end of the vertical direction upper edge line of the square array and over a center pixel of the lower edge line, and the second array pattern has the same placement of the first filter as that in the first array pattern and has a placement of the second filter and a placement of the third filter swapped over therefrom; and phase difference detection pixels that are placed at positions corresponding to 2 pixels that are adjacent in the horizontal direction out of the 2×2 pixels of at least one side of the upper side or lower side disposed first and second array patterns out of the 2 first array patterns and the 2 second array patterns configuring the basic array pattern. | 01-23-2014 |
20140176682 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE AND METHOD - A stereoscopic image capture device comprising: a single imaging optical system; an imaging element that forms pupil-divided object images; a diaphragm that restricts a light flux that enters into the imaging element; and a diaphragm control device, wherein, when focal lengths before and after adjusting the focal length of the imaging optical system are assumed to be f1 and f2 and the F value of the diaphragm before adjusting the focal length of the imaging optical system is assumed to be FNo1, the diaphragm control device performs control such that an F value of FNo2 after adjusting the focal length of the imaging optical system becomes an F value that can be set according to a following equation: | 06-26-2014 |
20140307139 | IMAGING ELEMENT AND IMAGING APPARATUS - It is an imaging element in which pixels which are photoelectric conversion elements are placed at respective square lattice positions, in which, when, in a predetermined region where pixels of the imaging element are placed, a plurality of pairs are arranged in a first line which is any one line among lines and a second line which is parallel to the first line, each pair having pair pixels which are first and second phase difference detection pixels placed adjacent to each other to detect a phase difference among the pixels of the imaging element, the pairs in the first line are placed to be spaced apart from each other by at least two pixels, and the pairs in the second line are placed at positions, which correspond to positions where the pair pixels in the first line are spaced apart from each other. | 10-16-2014 |
20140313380 | COLOR IMAGING ELEMENT AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A color imaging element, includes a color filter array, in which the color filter array includes an array pattern of a 3×3 pixel group in which first filters corresponding to a green color and second filters corresponding to red and blue colors are arrayed, and the first filters are placed at a center and 4 corners in the 3×3 pixel group, and the array pattern is repeatedly placed in horizontal and vertical directions, and in a pixel group within a predetermined area of the color imaging element, phase difference detection pixels for acquiring phase difference information are placed in entire components of one direction among components in the horizontal direction and components in the vertical direction in the pixel group. | 10-23-2014 |
20140347544 | IMAGING APPARATUS - Provided is an imaging apparatus that is convenient for use with a combination of an optical finder and an electronic finder and is capable of minimizing manufacturing costs while preventing visibility in the finder from being lowered. In the EVF mode, a control unit | 11-27-2014 |
20150015672 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing method according to the present invention cuts out partial images corresponding to trimming regions, which is specified for multiple viewpoint images of a stereoscopic image obtained by pupil-division-scheme imaging, from the respective viewpoint images, generates a stereoscopic partial image including multiple partial images, generates parallax information that indicates the parallax between the partial images, adjusts the parallax between the partial images based on the parallax information, and then, for the partial images after the parallax adjustment, enhances the sharpness as the adjusted parallax amount decreases and reduces the sharpness as the adjusted parallax amount increases. | 01-15-2015 |