Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Focus adjustment apparatus, image capturing apparatus, focus adjustment method, and storage medium
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Application No.: US16509572Application Date: 2019-07-12
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Publication No.: US11237458B2Publication Date: 2022-02-01
- Inventor: Satoru Matsumoto , Yuichiro Ishitsuka
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.
- Priority: JPJP2018-133429 20180713
- Main IPC: G03B13/36
- IPC: G03B13/36 ; G02B7/04

Abstract:
There is provided a focus adjustment apparatus. A first obtainment unit obtains a focus degree in a predetermined region of a shooting range. A driving unit drives a focus lens in response to an operation unit being operated. A movement amount of the focus lens per unit of an operation amount of the operation unit during the driving is lower in a case where the focus degree is greater than a focus threshold than in a case where the focus degree is lower than the focus threshold. The focus threshold is higher in a case where the focus lens is moving in a direction that increases the focus degree than in a case where the focus lens is moving in a direction that reduces the focus degree.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200019040A1 FOCUS ADJUSTMENT APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, FOCUS ADJUSTMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Public/Granted day:2020-01-16
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