IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS

Patent №

US 7,583,308

Granted

2009-09-01

Filed 2006

Owner

EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY

Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11360899

The present invention provides a digital camera which has a plurality of image capturing optical systems and quickly performs automatic focusing. A digital camera includes a first image capturing optical system formed from a lens 2 and a first image sensor, and a second image capturing optical system formed from a lens 3 and a second image sensor. An image processor detects a phase difference between an image of a single subject formed on the first image sensor and an image of the same formed on the second image sensor, in order to perform phase-difference AF. Since the lenses 2, 3 have different focal lengths, the image processor executes correlation operation after having performed conversion processing for causing a scaling factor of the image formed by the first image sensor to coincide with that of the image formed by the second image sensor, to thus detect a phase difference.

VisionG02B 7/34G02B 7/36H04N 23/672H04N 23/673

AI classification

Vision0.83
Machine learning0.00
Natural language0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
AI hardware0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY

assignment · 177990462

Assignors

KANAI, KUNIHIKO, SHIRAKI, HIDENORI

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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