Patents by Inventor Yoshitaka Miyatani

Yoshitaka Miyatani has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20140072290
    Abstract: There is provided a focus detection device including a phase difference acquisition unit that calculates an amount of deviation between light-reception amount distributions of a pair of light-receiving element groups arranged in a predetermined direction perpendicular to an optical axis direction as a phase difference, a conversion coefficient correction unit that corrects a conversion coefficient, representing a ratio of an amount of focus deviation in the optical axis direction to the phase difference when shapes of the light-reception amount distributions are same, according to a degree of discrepancy between the shapes of the light-reception amount distributions, and a defocus amount generation unit that generates the amount of focus deviation as an amount of defocus based on the corrected conversion coefficient and the phase difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshitaka MIYATANI
  • Publication number: 20140036134
    Abstract: There is provided a focus adjustment device including an image sensor including a plurality of phase difference detection pixels that each perform pupil division of a photographing lens, a correction value acquisition unit for acquiring a correction value for a focus position in a spatial frequency of a subject which is obtained by the image sensor, and a focus adjustment unit for adjusting a focus position of the photographing lens based on the correction value acquired by the correction value acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Inventors: Yoshitaka MIYATANI, Norihiko AKAMATSU, Genta YAGYU
  • Publication number: 20140028881
    Abstract: There is provided an image pickup apparatus including an image sensor including a plurality of phase difference detection pixels that each perform pupil division of a photographing lens, a gain acquisition unit for acquiring a gain used to correct an output of the phase difference detection pixels, and a correction processing unit for correcting the output of the phase difference detection pixels using the gain acquired by the gain acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Inventors: Yoshitaka MIYATANI, Kazuki AKAHO
  • Patent number: 8508650
    Abstract: An image pickup system includes an image pickup apparatus and a mount adaptor that adjusts a flange focal length between the image pickup apparatus and an interchangeable lens. The mount adaptor includes a phase-difference focus detection unit that can output a first phase-difference focus detection signal, and an optical device that separates first incident light into second and third incident light. The first incident light is transmitted from the interchangeable lens. The second incident light enters the image pickup apparatus. The third incident light enters the phase-difference focus detection unit. The image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup device that can output a second phase-difference focus detection signal, and a controller that selects either of the first phase-difference focus detection signal and the second phase-difference focus detection signal on the basis of satisfaction of a predetermined condition and performs focusing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Norihiko Akamatsu, Yoshitaka Miyatani
  • Publication number: 20120162492
    Abstract: An image pickup system includes an image pickup apparatus and a mount adaptor that adjusts a flange focal length between the image pickup apparatus and an interchangeable lens. The mount adaptor includes a phase-difference focus detection unit that can output a first phase-difference focus detection signal, and an optical device that separates first incident light into second and third incident light. The first incident light is transmitted from the interchangeable lens. The second incident light enters the image pickup apparatus. The third incident light enters the phase-difference focus detection unit. The image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup device that can output a second phase-difference focus detection signal, and a controller that selects either of the first phase-difference focus detection signal and the second phase-difference focus detection signal on the basis of satisfaction of a predetermined condition and performs focusing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihiko Akamatsu, Yoshitaka Miyatani