Patent ID: 6532060
Filing Date: 2003-03-11
Classification: G01C

Abstract:
A distance measuring apparatus comprising:light receiving means of a charge accumulating type, having a plurality of pixels, for light-receiving optical images which are formed by light beams of an object to be photographed which are divided into at least one pair, and outputting a signal of an object image; distance measuring means for outputting distance information regarding a distance to said object, based on an output by said light receiving means; night view discriminating means for discriminating whether or not a photographing object situation is a night view or a view in which the night view is a background, based on a calculated result of the output of said light receiving means; and correcting means for correcting a photographing distance which is set to a predetermined direction with respect to the distance information output by said distance measuring means when said night view discriminating means determines that the photographing object situation is the night view or the view in which the night view is the background and the distance information output by said distance measuring means is equal to or greater than a predetermined distance.