Patent application number | Description | Published |
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 |
20140022423 | COLOR IMAGING ELEMENT, IMAGING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING AN IMAGING PROGRAM - An image pickup device includes: a color filter having repeatedly disposed basic array patterns configured with first and second array patterns disposed symmetrically about a point, wherein the first array pattern has a first filter placed at the 4 corner and center pixels of a 3×3 pixel square array, a second filter placed in a line at the horizontal direction center of the square array, and a third filter placed in a line at the vertical direction center of the square array, and the second array pattern has the same placement of the first filter as the first array pattern and has placement of the second filter and placement of the third filter swapped over to that of the first array pattern; and phase difference detection pixels placed at positions corresponding to the first filter at a top and bottom edge sides in the array pattern. | 01-23-2014 |
20140022445 | COLOR IMAGING ELEMENT, IMAGING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING AN IMAGING PROGRAM - An image capturing element is provided with: a color filter in which a basic arrangement pattern having first and second arrangement patterns arranged to be symmetrical about a point is repeated. The first arrangement pattern comprises first filters arranged on pixels in 2×2 arrangement located at the upper-left portion and a pixel located at the lower-right in a 3×3 pixel square arrangement, second filters arranged on the center and lower end lines in the vertical direction of the square arrangement, and third filters arranged on the center and right lines in the horizontal direction of the square arrangement. The second arrangement pattern comprises the first filters having the same arrangement as in the first arrangement pattern, and the second filters and the third filters having the arrangements interchanged with each other compared to the arrangements in the first arrangement pattern. | 01-23-2014 |
20140022446 | COLOR IMAGING ELEMENT, IMAGING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING AN IMAGING PROGRAM - Interpolation precision of phase difference detection pixels is raised. An image sensor ( | 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 |
20140043508 | COLOR IMAGING ELEMENT, IMAGING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING AN IMAGING PROGRAM - An image pickup device includes: a color filter having basic array patterns with first and second array patterns disposed symmetrically, wherein the first array pattern has a first filter at the 4 corner and center pixels of a 3×3 pixel square array, a second filter in a line at the horizontal direction center of the square array, and a third filter placed in a line at the vertical direction center of the square array, and the second array pattern has the same placement of the first filter as the first array pattern and has placement of the second filter and placement of the third filter swapped to that of the first array pattern; and phase difference detection pixels placed on pixels corresponding to positions of centers of at least 1 pair of patterns out of 2 pairs of the first array pattern and the second array pattern. | 02-13-2014 |
20140211075 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING FOCUSING PARAMETER VALUE - An image capturing apparatus includes: an image capturing element in which a plurality of pixels and phase difference pixels are formed within an effective pixel region; a photographing lens; a phase difference amount detecting unit analyzing a captured image signal and obtaining a phase difference amount from detection signals of two of the phase difference pixels that make a pair; and a control unit obtaining a defocus amount of a photographic subject image from the detected phase difference amount and performing a focusing control, in which the control unit obtains a parameter value regarding a ratio of the defocus amount and the phase difference amount based on photographing lens information of the photographing lens and a light receiving sensitivity distribution indicating sensitivity for each incident angle of incident light for the two of the phase difference pixels that make the pair, and obtains the defocus amount. | 07-31-2014 |
20140211076 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING SENSITIVITY RATIO OF PHASE DIFFERENCE PIXEL - An image capturing apparatus includes: an image capturing element in which a plurality of pixels are formed and arranged and phase difference pixels are formed within an effective pixel region; a photographing lens; and a control unit which analyzes a captured image signal by the image capturing element, obtains a phase difference amount from detection signals of two of the phase difference pixels that make a pair, and performs a focusing control of the photographing lens, in which the control unit calculates, as a sensitivity ratio, a ratio of an integration value of light receiving sensitivity of the phase difference pixel within a range of an incident angle of the photographing lens, and an integration value of light receiving sensitivity of a pixel other than the phase difference pixel, and corrects a deviation in light receiving sensitivity between the two phase difference pixels. | 07-31-2014 |
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 |
20150036025 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGING APPARATUS MOUNTED WITH IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AS FINDER DEVICE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An image display device includes a beam splitter that splits an incident light entering from a subject side, an imaging device that converts a first optical image generated by an one-side incident light split by the beam splitter into an electrical signal and outputs the converted electrical signal as a capture image, a synthesis image generating unit that generates an electronic information image, a display panel that displays the electronic information image, and an optical prism that emits an optical image of the electronic information image projected from the display panel to be superimposed on a second optical image generated by the other-side split incident light. | 02-05-2015 |