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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127593 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS A control unit starts a first operation when a first detection unit detects rotation of an operation member in a first direction by an angle not less than a first angle and changes a control value for the first operation when a second detection unit detects rotation of ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120050577 | LENS DRIVING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF A lens driving apparatus comprises: a zoom lens driven in an optical axis direction; first and second correction lenses driven in the optical axis direction; a storage unit that stores, for each predetermined focal length, positional relationships between the zoom lens,... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20110235188 | IMAGE PICKUP LENS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, AND LENS CONTROLLING METHOD An image pickup lens includes a controller and a manipulator position detector configured to detect a position of a manipulator configured to accept a manipulation used to move the lens. When the manipulation of the manipulator becomes valid and a difference between the... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110115968 | OPTICAL SYSTEM An optical system of the present invention includes a storage unit which stores an operated position of an operation unit and a position of an optical member. When the power supply to the optical system terminates and then restarts, a control unit compares the stored op... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110102909 | LENS BARREL AND DIGITAL CAMERA INCLUDING THE SAME A lens barrel includes a barrel case comprising a fixed barrel mounted to a camera body and a first movement barrel that is moveable along an optical axis according to a cam groove formed on an inner surface of the fixed barrel; and a lens assembly accommodated in the b... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110063738 | LENS POSITION CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD It is provided an imaging apparatus including a plurality of motors configured to be driven to move lenses in synchronous with a drive pulse, a position detection unit configured to detect one of positions of the lenses moved by the driving of the plurality of motors, a... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20100046088 | PROJECTOR AND CONTROL METHOD OF PROJECTOR A projector includes: a projection lens which includes a zoom mechanism capable of controlling a projection view angle; a zoom drive unit which drives the zoom mechanism; a zoom amount storing unit which stores a zoom amount provided by the zoom drive unit; an operation... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20090284845 | LENS DRIVING-CONTROL DEVICE AND IMAGING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE LENS DRIVING-CONTROL DEVICE A lens driving-control device including a plurality of lens groups having variable magnification function, a plurality of lens driving devices each of which being configured to adjustably drive a driving speed of each of the plurality of lens groups, a control device co... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090251809 | Linear micro motor The present invention relates to a linear micro motor having an forward and backward reciprocating motion. The linear micro motor includes at least two actuators which can be a scratch drive actuator (SDA), a bounce drive actuator (BDA) or a combination thereof. To achi... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090168200 | LENS POSITION CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD It is provided an imaging apparatus including a plurality of motors configured to be driven to move lenses in synchronous with a drive pulse, a position detection unit configured to detect one of positions of the lenses moved by the driving of the plurality of motors, a... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090161233 | LENS POSITION DETECTING DEVICE AND LENS POSITION DETECTING METHOD A lens position detecting device includes a lens, a lens driver for moving the lens in the optical axis direction, a lens drive command unit for outputting a drive command to the lens driver; a position detector for detecting that the lens is located at a predetermined ... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090161231 | Lens Drive Device A lens drive device having a simple structure and small sized. The lens drive device (1) has a lens holder (3, 5), a drive shaft (21) into which one end of the lens holder (3, 5) is fitted and placed along the direction of the optical axis of... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090161232 | OPTICAL APPARATUS An optical apparatus includes a magnification-varying lens, a controller configured to control an actuator, and to move the magnification-varying lens; and a temperature detector configured to detect a temperature of the optical apparatus, wherein the controller sets a ... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090034095 | PHOTOGRAPHING LENS DRIVING CONTROL APPARATUS A photographing lens driving control apparatus includes a plurality of lens groups constituting a zooming optical system including a lens group (1A) on an object side and a lens group (1B) on an imaging side, a plurality of lens driving device (4A, ... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20080174883 | OPTICAL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND PROGRAM FOR IMPLEMENTING THE CONTROL METHOD An optical device which makes it possible to reduce time for extending lens units while avoiding collision between lens units during a lens units-extending operation. A first-group barrel is driven by a DC motor. A second-group barrel provided rearward of the first-grou... | 07/24/2008 |
| 20080165431 | Motor drive controller for controlling movement and stop by motor and camera apparatus A control section (CPU) acquires a stop target position where a stop target lens should be stopped from a zoom tracing table according to zoom operation. Next, a motor driver is controlled to drive a DC motor of a lens unit. Comparison is made between a current state an... | 07/10/2008 |
| 20070279765 | Image stabilizer, lens device and imaging apparatus An image stabilizer includes: an electric actuator including a coil and a magnet capable of moving relatively; a moving frame to which one of the coil and the magnet, and a correcting lens are fixed; a supporting frame to which the other thereof is fixed and which suppo... | 12/06/2007 |
| 20070229979 | LENS APPARATUS AND IMAGE-PICKUP APPARATUS Provided is a lens apparatus mounted to a camera including an image-pickup element, including: a focus lens means movable in an optical axis direction for focusing; a zoom lens unit; a zoom detector for detecting a zoom value of the zoom lens unit; an aperture-stop devi... | 10/04/2007 |
| 20060001982 | Lens system and image capturing apparatus A lens system 3 is provided with a plurality of lens units including a first lens unit 9, and has a condition changing structure 6 that is capable of changing the condition of the first lens unit 9 without changing the position of the first l... | 01/05/2006 |
| 20050280903 | ZOOM LENS MECHANISM PARTLY FOLDABLE AND RETRACTABLE A zoom lens mechanism foldable and retractable to be used in a digital still camera to control zooming of the zoom lens uses programmed data written in a micro controller unit (hereinafter referred to as MCU) instead of the conventional cylindrical grooved cams that are... | 12/22/2005 |
| 20050078381 | Imaging device A lens control device, for controlling driving of a second lens unit for correcting image movement regarding movement of a variating first lens unit, comprises: a storage unit for storing data indicating the position of the second lens unit corresponding to the position... | 04/14/2005 |
