IMAGING ELEMENT AND IMAGING APPARATUS

• Main Author: MURATA HIRONOBU
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 10.04.2024
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

To provide an imaging apparatus which is an imaging apparatus for performing focus detection by a pupil division type phase difference system and is for setting a pixel arrangement to be a predetermined arrangement such as a Bayer arrangement.SOLUTION: In an imaging element, a light receiving part includes two first pixels 202-1 which are continuously arranged in a first direction and detect first color light, two second pixels 202-2 which are continuously arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction, are adjacent to the two first pixels, and detect second color light, a plurality of first light receiving areas which are arranged in the first pixel and divided in the first direction where the first color light is received, and a plurality of second light receiving areas which are arranged in the second pixel and divided in the second direction where the second color light is received.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 15 【課題】瞳分割型位相差方式による焦点検出を行う撮像装置であって、画素配列をベイヤー配列等の所定の配列にする撮像装置を提供する。【解決手段】撮像素子において、受光部は、第１方向に連続して配置され、第１の色の光を検出する２つの第１画素２０２－１と、第１方向に交差する第２方向に連続して配置され、２つの第１画素に隣接し、第２の色の光を検出する２つの第２画素２０２－２と、第１画素に配置され、第１の色の光を受光する第１方向に分割された複数の第１受光領域と、第２画素に配置され、第２の色の光を受光する第２方向に分割された複数の第２受光領域とを備える。【選択図】図１５