Image pickup device and focus detection apparatus

摘要

An image pickup device includes pixels arranged in a matrix shape, vertical signal lines to which the pixels are respectively connected via normal connection lines for each column, focus detection pixels discretely arranged among the pixels, focus connection lines that set, in a range in which a total number of the focus detection pixels included in a row group including a plurality of rows is not more than a number of the vertical signal lines, the row group and respectively connect all the focus detection pixels included in the row group to the different vertical signal lines, focus readout switches respectively provided on the focus connection lines, and a vertical scanning circuit that causes the focus readout switches to simultaneously operate by a unit of the row group.

主权项

1. An image pickup device including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix shape, comprising:
a plurality of vertical signal lines, respectively provided to correspond to all columns, to each of which the pixels in one of the columns are connected, respectively, via normal connection lines; a plurality of focus detection pixels discretely arranged among the plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix shape over a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns; a vertical scanning circuit that sets a plurality of row groups each of the row groups comprising a plurality of rows and being set in a range in which a total number of the focus detection pixels included in each of the row groups is not more than a number of the vertical signal lines; focus connection lines that are different from normal connection lines of the device and respectively connect all the focus detection pixels included in the row group to the different vertical signal lines; focus readout switches respectively provided on the focus connection lines wherein the vertical scanning circuit that causes the focus readout switches to simultaneously operate by a unit of the row group.