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Title:
AUTOMATIC FOCUSING DEVICE AND METHOD
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2006293009
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide an automatic focusing device and a focusing method capable of focusing a subject having no high-frequency component in a horizontal direction without increasing a memory capacity or a circuit scale.

A digital video signal output from an A/D conversion circuit 7 is converted into a luminance signal in a luminance signal generation circuit 22. The luminance signal is rearranged so as to be scanned to include at least a part scanned zigzag in a luminance signal rearranging circuit 23. The luminance signal rearranged in the luminance signal rearranging circuit 23 is input in a band pass filter 24 so as to extract a contrast value. An AF evaluated value is arithmetically calculated in a cumulative adding circuit 25 based on the contrast value.


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Inventors:
KUROKI TSUTOMU
KINDAICHI TAKASHI
Application Number:
JP2005113409A
Publication Date:
October 26, 2006
Filing Date:
April 11, 2005
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP
International Classes:
G02B7/36; G02B7/28; G03B13/36; H04N5/232; H04N101/00
Domestic Patent References:
JPH0353210A1991-03-07
JPH03273770A1991-12-04
JPH05264891A1993-10-15
JPH05336431A1993-12-17
JPS6160081A1986-03-27
JP2004361611A2004-12-24
JP2003101867A2003-04-04
JP2004170510A2004-06-17
JP2003303564A2003-10-24
JPH0353676A1991-03-07
JPH0433480A1992-02-04
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Takehiko Suzue
Satoshi Kono
Makoto Nakamura
Kurata Masatoshi
Takashi Mine
Yoshihiro Fukuhara
Sadao Muramatsu
Ryo Hashimoto