Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Focus adjustment device and focus adjustment method
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Application No.: US15407115Application Date: 2017-01-16
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Publication No.: US10051174B2Publication Date: 2018-08-14
- Inventor: Shingo Miyazawa , Makoto Ikeda
- Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Olympus Corporation
- Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Pokotylo Patent Services
- Agent John C. Pokotylo
- Priority: JP2016-006984 20160118
- Main IPC: H04N5/232
- IPC: H04N5/232 ; G02B7/38 ; G02B7/28 ; H04N5/235 ; G02B7/34 ; G02B7/09 ; G02B7/36

Abstract:
A direction judgment unit calculates a first evaluation value based on an image signal of a first focus detection region among focus detection regions to judge a drive direction of a focus lens to be in focus and calculates a second evaluation value based on an image signal of at least one second focus detection region smaller than the first region, the focus detection regions being at least partly the same and being different in size. A control unit determines whether a change of the second evaluation value is a monotonous change when the focus lens is slightly driven a first number of times in a first direction judged on the basis of the first evaluation value and the focus lens is slightly driven a second number of times smaller than the first number of times in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and the control unit performs focus adjustment on the basis of the second evaluation value when the change of the second evaluation value is not a monotonous change.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170257556A1 FOCUS ADJUSTMENT DEVICE AND FOCUS ADJUSTMENT METHOD Public/Granted day:2017-09-07
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