Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image sensor and image-capturing device
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Application No.: US12453994Application Date: 2009-05-28
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Publication No.: US08416336B2Publication Date: 2013-04-09
- Inventor: Ken Utagawa , Yosuke Kusaka
- Applicant: Ken Utagawa , Yosuke Kusaka
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Nikon Corporation
- Current Assignee: Nikon Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oliff & Berridge, PLC
- Priority: JP2008-144209 20080602
- Main IPC: H04N5/232
- IPC: H04N5/232 ; H04N5/335

Abstract:
An image sensor includes: a plurality of imaging pixels; and a plurality of focus detection pixels constituted with a micro-lens and a photoelectric conversion element that receives a focus detection light flux transmitted through a photographic optical system and executes photoelectric conversion. The photoelectric conversion element in each of the focus detection pixels includes a light-receiving area where the focus detection light flux is received; light-receiving area images corresponding to each of the focus detection pixels are each formed as the light-receiving area is projected via the micro-lens onto a pupil plane of the photographic optical system; and a positional relationship of the micro-lens and the light-receiving area is determined in correspondence to an image height so that the light-receiving area images corresponding to all the focus detection pixels are superimposed on one another on the pupil plane.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090295964A1 Image sensor and image-capturing device Public/Granted day:2009-12-03
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