Patent ID: 9621873
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A single lens imaging apparatus comprising: a single imaging lens section which is rotatable around an axis along a first direction orthogonal to an optical axis so that a relationship of a position of background with respect to a subject in an optical image is changed; a first driving section which rotates the single imaging lens section around the axis; an obtaining section which includes an imaging element; a second driving section which moves the imaging element along a second direction in which the imaging element is moveable; and a second control section which controls the second driving section to move the imaging element in a same direction as a direction in which the optical axis of the single imaging lens section is displaced by the rotation of the single imaging lens section by the first driving section, wherein the second control section adjusts a movement amount of the imaging element by the second driving section based on a position of the subject in a field of view, and wherein the obtaining section obtains, at different times, two image signals by performing photoelectric conversion with the imaging element which is moved by the second driving section by the movement amount which is adjusted by the second control section, the two image signals corresponding to two optical images which respectively pass through the single imaging lens section at different times before and after a rotation thereof by the first driving section and in which the relationship of the position of the background with respect to the subject is different; and a generating section which generates image data of a stereoscopic image based on the two image signals respectively obtained by the obtaining section before and after the rotation, wherein, when the subject is displaced in one direction along the second direction from substantially a center portion of the angle of view, the second control section controls the second driving section to move the imaging element such that the movement amount of the imaging element in a first moving direction determined in accordance with the one direction is larger than the movement amount of the imaging element in a second moving direction opposite to the first moving direction.