PHOTOGRAPHING DEVICE

• Main Author: MIYAWAKI MAKOTO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 19.05.2016
• Subjects: ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USINGWAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FORPROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS; OPTICS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a photographing device capable of reducing the degradation of image quality by improving autofocus performance with respect to the dark part of a subject.SOLUTION: The photographing device includes an imaging element on which an image of light from the subject is formed through an optical lens and in which a screen is divided into a plurality of regions, region selection means for selecting the regions, reading means for reading the pixel information of the imaging element corresponding to the selected region, storage means for storing the read pixel information, synthesis means for synthesizing the stored pixel information, and range-finding means for performing the range-finding of the subject from the synthesized pixel information.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】被写体の暗部に対するオートフォーカス性能を向上させて画像の品位低下を軽減できる撮影装置を提供すること。【解決手段】光学レンズを通して被写体からの光が結像され、画面内が複数の領域に分割された撮像素子と、その領域を選択する領域選択手段と、選択された前記領域に対応した前記撮像素子の画素情報を読み出す読出し手段と、前記読み出した画素情報を記憶する記憶手段と、前記記憶した画素情報を合成する合成手段と、前記合成された画素情報から被写体の測距を行う測距手段と、を有することを特徴とする。【選択図】図１