Title:
ELECTRONIC STILL CAMERA
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3644763
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a small and thin electronic still camera with a simple constitution by shifting an optical axis of a lens system and a center of the image-forming face of an image pickup element at non-photographing time and matching with the optical axis of the lens system with the center of the image-forming face of the image pickup element at the time of photographing.
SOLUTION: An image pickup lens 1 and an image pickup means 3 are arranged in parallel at the nonphotographing time. A structure means 2 holds the image pickup lens 1 or the image pickup means 3 or the image pickup lens 1 and the image pickup means 3. At the time of photographing, the structure means 2 moves the image pickup lens 1 or the image pickup means 3 or the image pickup lens 1 and the image pickup means 3 and matches the optical axis of the image pickup lens 1 with the center of the image-forming face of the image pickup element arranged on the image pickup means 3. Thus, the electronic still camera can be thinned since the image pickup lens 1 can be stored at the side of the image pickup means 3 and the trailing end of the image pickup lens 1 at the back or near the back of a design 5 at non- photographing time with such constitution.
Inventors:
Tetsuya Kuno
Hiroaki Sugiura
Shoie Oie
Maemura Yoshitaka
Ken Iwasaki
Okada Shimon
Riro Sato
Hiroaki Sugiura
Shoie Oie
Maemura Yoshitaka
Ken Iwasaki
Okada Shimon
Riro Sato
Application Number:
JP18625596A
Publication Date:
May 11, 2005
Filing Date:
July 16, 1996
Export Citation:
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
International Classes:
G03B19/06; G03B17/04; G03B17/48; G03B19/07; H04N5/225; H04N101/00; (IPC1-7): H04N5/225; G03B17/04; G03B19/07
Domestic Patent References:
| JP1259676A | ||||
| JP64046735A |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Minoru Maeda
Youichi Yamagata
Youichi Yamagata