Patent ID: 9693037
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. An imaging apparatus comprising: a sensor that has a plurality of photoelectric conversion units configured to receive and photoelectrically convert light fluxes having passed through an imaging optical system with respect to one micro lens and is capable of outputting first viewpoint image data and second viewpoint image data; a movement detecting processor configured to detect the movement of an object by calculating first statistics of each of a plurality of the first viewpoint image data and comparing the first statistics or calculating second statistics of each of a plurality of the second viewpoint image data and comparing the second statistics; a phase difference detecting processor configured to acquire information corresponding to a phase difference between a first viewpoint image and a second viewpoint image by comparing the first viewpoint image and the second viewpoint image; and a controller configured to control focus adjustment based on the phase difference detected by the phase difference detecting processor, wherein, in a case where the movement is detected by the movement detecting processor, the phase difference detecting processor compares the first viewpoint image and the second viewpoint image in a region restricted by each region of the first viewpoint image and the second viewpoint image in which the movement is detected by the movement detecting processor, wherein the movement detecting processor detects the movement of an object in a case where the movement of the object is equal to or less than a threshold value, and wherein, when a movement amount of an object detected by the movement detecting processor is equal to or less than a threshold value, the controller calculates center coordinates of an object position on a first viewpoint image or a second viewpoint image from the movement amount and instructs the movement detecting processor to calculate an characteristic amount of the object on the center coordinates.