US 7,602,435 B2
Image-taking apparatus and focus control program for image-taking apparatus
Kazunori Ishii, Kanagawa (Japan)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Sep. 08, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/936,250.
Claims priority of application No. 2003-317294 (JP), filed on Sep. 09, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2005/0052564 A1, Mar. 10, 2005
Int. Cl. H04N 5/232 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 348—345 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image-taking apparatus comprising:
an image-pickup element which photoelectrically converts an object image formed by an image-taking optical system which includes a focus lens;
a first detector which outputs a focus evaluation value signal which represents a focusing state of the image-taking optical system based on a predetermined frequency component of an output signal from the image-pickup element;
a second detector which outputs information about a distance to an object with triangulation; and
a controller which performs a first control for moving the focus lens to a position at which the focus evaluation value signal is at a relatively large level,
wherein the controller obtains shift information which represents a shift state from an in-focus state based on the information about the distance to the object with triangulation from the second detector after the first control, and performs processing associated with re-performance of the first control based on at least the shift information.