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Title:
PARALLAX CORRECTING DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2003186084
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a parallax correcting device of a simple constitution which can continuously correct a parallax according to subject distance without making a camera large-sized nor decreasing a finder visual field rate.

A camera 10 to which the invention is applied is equipped with a finder optical part 12 different from a photography optical part 14, an AF sensor 33 as a range finder which finds the distance to a subject 11, and a parallax correction part 21 comprising a finder driving part 21A driving part or the whole of the finder optical part 12 in a direction for correcting the finder parallax by using a coil spring 21a and a shape memory alloy part 21b and a driving circuit part 21B which supplies electric power needed to drive the finder driving part 21A; and the parallax correction part 21 drives the finder optical part 12 to a parallax correction position under the control of a control part 15 based upon the measurement result of the AF sensor 33.


Inventors:
ISHINO TAKESHI
Application Number:
JP2001382298A
Publication Date:
July 03, 2003
Filing Date:
December 14, 2001
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO
International Classes:
G03B13/36; G02B7/28; G03B5/06; G03B13/06; G03B13/14; G03B17/02; H04N5/225; (IPC1-7): G03B13/14; G02B7/28; G03B5/06; G03B13/06; G03B13/36; G03B17/02; H04N5/225
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Susumu Ito