Patent ID: 9341935
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: G02B,G03B,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An image capture device, comprising: a plurality of microlenses that are arranged in a two dimensional configuration in a vicinity of a focal plane of a photographic optical system; an image capture element in which a plurality of element groups are arranged in a two dimensional configuration so as respectively to correspond to the microlenses, each element group including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements that receive via the microlenses light fluxes from a photographic subject that have passed through the photographic optical system and that output image signals; a setting unit that sets a plurality of different region upon the pupil surface of the photographic optical system; a generation unit that extracts, among the image signals outputted from the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements included in each of the plurality of element groups, region image signals respectively corresponding to the plurality of different partial regions that are set by the setting unit and that generates, on the basis of the region image signals, a plurality of sets of image data as a plurality of sets of viewpoint image data whose viewpoint positions are different with each other, each of the plurality of sets of image data respectively corresponding to the regions set by the setting unit; and a viewpoint condition input operation member that inputs a viewpoint condition input operation to input a viewpoint condition, wherein the setting unit sets the plurality of different region upon the pupil surface of the photographic optical system based upon the viewpoint condition input by the viewpoint condition input operation member, the viewpoint condition input operation member receives parallax selection operation to select a parallax that specifies an amount of change of viewpoint between the plurality of sets of viewpoint image data, the setting unit sets the regions at positional intervals that correspond to the parallax selected by the parallax selection operation, and the generation unit generates the sets of viewpoint image data by extracting the region image signal corresponding to each of the set regions that are positioned apart at the intervals.