Patent ID: 9402023
Filing Date: 2016-07-26
CPC Classification: G02B,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An image capturing apparatus comprising: a focus detection unit, having a sensor for receiving light that has passed through an imaging optical system and accumulating charge, configured to perform focus detection on the basis of a signal generated by the sensor; a mirror configured to be movable between a first position where the mirror is inserted in an imaging light path and leads light that has passed through the imaging optical system toward the focus detection unit, and a second position where the mirror is withdrawn from the imaging light path; and a calculation unit configured to predict an amount corresponding to a moving amount of a subject on the basis of a history of focus detection result by the focus detection unit, and calculate an in-focus position using the amount corresponding to the moving amount of the subject, wherein, in a case of continuously performing first image shooting and second image shooting in response to an image shooting instruction, the calculation unit performs the prediction of the amount corresponding to the moving amount of the subject used for calculating the in-focus position for the second image shooting before the mirror finishes moving from the second position to which the mirror is moved for the first image shooting to the first position, and wherein the focus detection unit is capable of continuing charge accumulation in the sensor until the mirror starts to move from the first position to the second position for the first image shooting.