US 12,114,087 B2
Imaging apparatus and imaging method for performing first and second readouts during a vertical period
Shinichi Fujii, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/926,311
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Apr. 6, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/014668
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 18, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/241014, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 2, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-090342 (JP), filed on May 25, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0217126 A1, Jul. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 25/704 (2023.01); H04N 23/67 (2023.01); H04N 25/76 (2023.01); H04N 25/78 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 25/704 (2023.01) [H04N 23/672 (2023.01); H04N 25/7795 (2023.01); H04N 25/78 (2023.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An imaging apparatus comprising:
an imaging element including photodiode divided pixels; and
a control unit that performs control to perform, with respect to first readout in which an addition value of a first pixel and a second pixel constituting the photodiode divided pixel is read out as a pixel value constituting an image and second readout of performing readout in which a value of the first pixel and a value of the second pixel used for phase difference detection can be obtained from the photodiode divided pixel that is not a readout target in the first readout, the first readout after performing the second readout in one vertical period.