Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging device and camera body
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Application No.: US16470493Application Date: 2018-11-15
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Publication No.: US11575836B2Publication Date: 2023-02-07
- Inventor: Yasuhiro Shingu , Naotaka Kishida , Kyosuke Osuka , Takaaki Yamasaki
- Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP
- International Application: PCT/JP2018/042246 WO 20181115
- International Announcement: WO2020/100243 WO 20200522
- Main IPC: H04N5/232
- IPC: H04N5/232 ; G03B13/36 ; G03B17/14 ; H04N5/225 ; H04N5/374

Abstract:
The imaging device includes a camera body and an interchangeable lens unit detachably attached to the camera body, the imaging device including, an optical system including a focus lens, an infinite rotation type focus ring, a lens drive part moving the focus lens forward and backward in an optical axis direction of the optical system, a setting part allowing a user to set a rotation range of the focus ring, a storage part assigning and storing respective different rotation amounts of the focus ring to multiple positions within a movement stroke of the focus lens in accordance with a rotation range set in the setting part, and a control part driving the lens drive part to move the focus lens depending on a rotation amount of the focus ring to a position corresponding to the rotation amount stored in the storage part.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210356842A1 IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA BODY Public/Granted day:2021-11-18
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