Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Lens unit, imaging device, and control method
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Application No.: US15700980Application Date: 2017-09-11
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Publication No.: US10567631B2Publication Date: 2020-02-18
- Inventor: Tomoomi Ito , Rui Chen , Makoto Kanai , Fumikazu Kanetaka , Naoki Miyagawa
- Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2016-017925 20160202
- Main IPC: H04N5/225
- IPC: H04N5/225 ; H04N5/232 ; G02B7/28 ; G02B7/08 ; G02B7/36

Abstract:
There is provided a lens unit equipped with multiple focus lenses provided inside a lens barrel, multiple actuators corresponding to the respective multiple focus lenses and configured to move each of the multiple focus lenses inside the lens barrel, and a control circuit configured to control movement of the multiple focus lenses according to different rules between a case of a position of each of the multiple focus lenses being inside a designated range of satisfactory optical performance, and a case of being outside the range.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180013942A1 LENS UNIT, IMAGING DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD Public/Granted day:2018-01-11
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