Patent ID: 9369693
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A stereoscopic imaging device that outputs a plurality of images with a phase difference caused by pupil division for a beam emitted from a single imaging optical system and is capable of restoring a stereoscopic image with a parallax corresponding to the phase difference from the plurality of images, comprising: a composition device that composes the plurality of images and outputs reference data for shading correction on the basis of the composite image of the plurality of images; and a correction device that compares the reference data output from the composition device with each of the plurality of images and calculates a difference between an average density value of the reference data and an average density value of each of the plurality of images to determine the amount of shading correction for each of the plurality of images and corrects the shading of each of the plurality of images on the basis of the determined amount of shading correction; an acquisition device that acquires set information when each of the plurality of images is captured; and a determination device that determines whether the shading correction by the correction device is needed on the basis of the set information acquired by the acquisition device, wherein the correction device corrects the shading of each of the plurality of images when the determination device determines that the shading correction by the correction device is needed, wherein the set information includes imaging mode setting information indicating a stereoscopic image capture mode or a planar image capture mode, and when the imaging mode setting information indicates the planar image capture mode, the determination device determines that the shading correction by the correction device is needed, wherein, when the imaging mode setting information indicates the stereoscopic image capture mode, the determination device determines that the shading correction by the correction device is not needed.