IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING METHOD

摘要

If there is no disparity in signal amount difference (No in step 12), or if there is a disparity in signal amount difference (Yes in step 12) and the difference is not equal to or greater than a certain value (No in step 14), phase difference AF processing is carried out on the basis of AF area signals of two images (step 18). If the difference is equal to or greater than the certain value (Yes in step 14), a CPU (40) determines the image having a smaller amount of the AF area signal as an image to be subjected to AF processing and inputs said image to an AF processing unit (42). The AF processing unit (42) carries out contrast AF processing on the basis of image data of the AF area in the image to be subjected to AF processing (step 16).