Image capture device and image display method

An image capture device comprising:

• an image capture element provided with color filters including a predetermined color filter array on pixels arranged in a matrix, the image capture element outputting a first color image with the same color array as the color array of the color filters, the image capture element including first and second pixel groups formed by pupil-dividing an object image passed through different first and second areas of an imaging lens, respectively, the image capture element including a third pixel group formed without pupil-dividing the object image, the image capture element outputting, from the first and second pixel groups, a first image and a second image with the same color array as the first color image or Bayer array, the image capture element outputting, from the third pixel group, a third image with the same color array as the first color image;
• a display unit that displays a color live-view image;
• a focusing confirmation image generation unit that generates a color focusing confirmation image based on the first image and the second image acquired from the image capture element;
• an image processing unit that generates a second color image for display to be displayed on the display unit based on the third image acquired from the image capture element;
• a display control unit that displays the color focusing confirmation image generated by the focusing confirmation image generation unit in a display area of the second color image for display generated by the image processing unit,
• a viewfinder used as an optical viewfinder or an electronic viewfinder;
• a finder switching unit that switches an electronic viewfinder mode for using the viewfinder as an electronic viewfinder and an optical viewfinder mode for using the viewfinder as an optical viewfinder;
• a synthesis unit that optically synthesizes an optical image of the optical viewfinder and the live-view image displayed by the display unit when the optical viewfinder mode is set;
• and
• a blocking unit that blocks incidence of the optical image to the synthesis unit at the switch to the electronic viewfinder mode by the finder switching unit, wherein
• the display control unit displays only the focusing confirmation image generated by the focusing confirmation image generation unit on the display unit at the switch to the optical viewfinder mode by the finder switching unit.

An image display method comprising:

• (a) a step of acquiring a first color image from an image capture element, the image capture element provided with color filters including a predetermined color filter array on pixels arranged in a matrix, the image capture element outputting the first color image with the same color array as the color array of the color filters, the image capture element including first and second pixel groups formed by pupil-dividing an object image passed through different first and second areas of an imaging lens, respectively, the image capture element including a third pixel group formed without pupil-dividing the object image;
• (b) a step of extracting first and second images corresponding to the first and second pixel groups from the acquired first color image, the first image and the second image having the same color array as the first color image or Bayer array;
• (c) a focusing confirmation image generation step of generating a color focusing confirmation image based on the extracted first image and second image;
• (d) an image processing step of generating a second color image for display based on a third image corresponding to the third pixel group in the acquired first color image;
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• (e) a step of displaying the color focusing confirmation image generated in the focusing confirmation image generation step in a display area of the generated second color image for display,
• (f) a step of detecting a phase difference between the first image and the second image output from the image capture element;
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• (g) a step of displaying a live-view image in which the color focusing confirmation image is displayed on a display unit by repeatedly executing the steps (a) to (f), wherein
• the second color image for display generated by the image processing step is used to display the live-view image on the display unit for a part in which the phase difference detected by the phase difference detection step is smaller than a predetermined threshold in the focusing confirmation image generated by the focusing confirmation image generation step.