Patent ID: 9621789
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: G02B,G03B,H04N

Claim:
1. An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging device that outputs a parallax image of a first image signal and a second image signal; a first focus detecting unit configured to calculate a defocus amount by a phase-difference detection method using the first signal and the second image signal; a second focus detecting unit configured to calculate a contrast evaluation value based on a combined signal, wherein the combined signal is a signal obtained by relatively shifting phases of the first and second image signals and combining the first and second image signals; and a saturation detecting unit configured to detect saturated pixel signal of the first and second image signals, and a control unit configured to, when a number of the saturated pixel signals detected by the saturation detecting unit is a first value, control a focus adjustment operation using a result of the first focus detecting unit, whereas when the number of the saturated pixel signals detected by the saturation detecting unit is a second value which is less than the first value, the control unit controls the focus adjustment operation using the result of the first focus detecting unit and a result of the second focus detecting unit.