Patent ID: 8933995
Filing Date: 2015-01-13
Classification: G02B,G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image capturing device which includes a single optical pickup system and an imaging element that has a first pixel group and a second pixel group respectively performing photoelectric conversion on light fluxes passing through different regions of the single optical pickup system, and which performs stereoscopic pickup used to acquire a stereoscopic image having a first planar image and a second planar image, respectively generated using the first pixel group and the second pixel group, and plane pickup used to acquire a planar image having the first planar image and the second planar image by imaging a same scene using the first pixel group and the second pixel group, the image capturing device comprising: light extinction unit that is capable of reducing an amount of light which is incident to the imaging element from the optical pickup system; a diaphragm that is arranged in a light path; subject brightness acquisition unit that acquires subject brightness; and control unit that, in a case of the stereoscopic pickup, controls whether or not to reduce the amount of light which reaches the imaging element using the light extinction unit based on the subject brightness acquired using the subject brightness acquisition unit, and that, in a case of the plane pickup, causes a diaphragm value of the diaphragm to be greater than a diaphragm value in the case of the stereoscopic pickup.