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Title:
撮像素子および撮像装置
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP6466656
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
Top and bottom opening pixel lines are arranged for focus detection in addition to right and left opening pixel lines, and image quality and AF performance are caused to coexist with each other in mixing readout. In an image sensor that has a plurality of imaging pixels and a plurality of focus detecting pixels (RL-pixels and TB-pixels) in which opening positions of light receiving parts are shifted from those of the imaging pixels, first focus detecting pixels (R-pixels and L-pixels) in which the opening positions are shifted in a first direction are arranged in a first pixel pitch at positions corresponding to first color filters for the imaging pixels, and second focus detecting pixels (T-pixels and B-pixels) in which openings are shifted in a second direction different from the first direction are arranged in a second pixel pitch at positions corresponding to second color filters for the imaging pixels different from the first color filters.

Inventors:
Tetsuo Kikuchi
Atsushi Okazawa
Yoshihisa Shimada
Application Number:
JP2014126709A
Publication Date:
February 06, 2019
Filing Date:
June 19, 2014
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
Olympus Endo Technology America Inc.
International Classes:
G02B7/28; G02B7/34; G03B13/36; H04N5/335; H04N9/07
Domestic Patent References:
JP2010020016A
JP2011199493A
JP2012054867A
JP2011081271A
JP2007279312A
JP2005106994A
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Kobayashi discretion