A patent showing what appears to be improved sensor based AF has appeared, this one uses some kind of “light field” processing.
Patent Publication No. 2015-161785 (Google Translated)
- Published 2015.9.7
- Filing date 2014.2.27
- The image plane phase difference AF, the light field I comprises a
- First, it is focusing on the image plane phase difference AF
- Then, detect the focus from refocus image
- To determine the driving range from the re-focus information in the case of out-of-focus
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