Imaging apparatus

A method for controlling a focus detection apparatus that includes:

• an image sensor including a first pixel group used for generating an image signal by photoelectrically converting an object image that has passed through an exit pupil of a photographic optical system and a second pixel group including a plurality of first focus detection pixels and a plurality of second focus detection pixels, and that has a plurality of focus detection pixel pairs each including a first focus detection pixel and a second focus detection pixel, the first focus detection pixel receiving a light beam that passes through a first pupil area of the photographic optical system that forms an object image and the second focus detection pixel receiving a light beam that passes through a second pupil area of the photographic optical system that forms an object image;
• and a memory unit configured to store information about a position of a defective pixel in the second pixel group, comprising:
• an eliminating step of performing elimination of a value of the defective pixel indicated by the information and a value of one of the first focus detection pixel and the second focus detection pixel that forms the focus detection pixel pair with the defective pixel, the first focus detection pixel or the second focus detection pixel that is a pair of the defective pixel is not a defective pixel, so as not to use the eliminated values for detecting the focusing status;
• an adjusting step of performing adjustment of a focal state of the photographic optical system based on an amount of defocus determined by an amount of relative displacement between a first signal and a second signal obtained as a result of the elimination.

An imaging apparatus comprising:

• an image sensor including a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels;
• a focus state detector that detects focus deviation amount according to a pair image based on the pixel signals from the first pixels and the second pixels, and
• a memory unit configured to store information about a position of a defective pixel in the first pixels and the second pixels,
• wherein the focus state detector detects, in a case where there is a defective line or row in which the defective pixel exists in one of the first pixels or second pixels which is a pair that form the pair image, the focus deviation amount based on the phase difference of the image, according to the result of correlation calculation of an image based on output signal of the first pixels and the second pixels which eliminated both defective row or line and row or line that is a pair of the defective line or row, the focus state detector eliminates row or line that is a pair of the defective line or row, even in a case where defective pixels do not exist in row or line that is a pair of the defective line or row.