McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Imaging apparatus and solid-state imaging device
An imaging apparatus includes: an optical lens; light receiving units each reading a photoelectric conversion signal; microlenses each placed for every two or more of the adjacent light receiving units; a signal generating unit generating (i) a full-addition signal by adding all of the photoelectric conversion signals obtained in a predetermined frame by the two or more adjacent light receiving units, (ii) a partial addition signal by adding the photoelectric conversion signals obtained by at least one but not all of the two or more adjacent light receiving units, and (iii) non-addition independent signals that are the photoelectric conversion signals of one of the light receiving units; a phase difference detecting unit detecting a focal point from the partial addition signal and the non-addition independent signals; and a camera YC processing unit generating a main image from the full-addition signal.
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Kazutoshi Toshiya Mitsuhiko
Onozawa Fujii Otani