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Title:
撮像装置及びこの制御方法
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP4136519
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:

To provide an imaging apparatus for realizing a control flow of an auto-focusing restart linked with an operational situation of a photographer without requiring complicated operations in the imaging apparatus configured by using a zoom lens capable of photographing by auto-focusing and photographing by manual focusing and performing control to temporarily stopping auto-focusing when focusing is manually performed.

The imaging apparatus adopts the configuration of the control flow in which auto-focusing is stopped when a manual focusing operation is performed in the zoom lens under auto-focusing and all of or any one of a change of sharpness to be sued for focusing evaluation or an operation of a zoom operating means or a change in an output signal of a vibration detecting means to be applied to the imaging apparatus is defined as a trigger to restart auto-focusing control.

COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO


Inventors:
Nakagawa English Law
Application Number:
JP2002224244A
Publication Date:
August 20, 2008
Filing Date:
July 31, 2002
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Assignee:
Canon Inc
International Classes:
G03B13/36; H04N5/232; G02B7/08; G02B7/09; G02B7/28; G02B7/36; G03B5/00
Domestic Patent References:
JP8029665A
JP6014246A
JP58062310U
JP6153053A
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Masayuki Kishida
Atsushi Mizumoto
Hiroji Obana



 
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