Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Exchangeable lens and camera body
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Application No.: US17698422Application Date: 2022-03-18
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Publication No.: US12028608B2Publication Date: 2024-07-02
- Inventor: Masafumi Oikawa , Kazuharu Imafuji , Shigeo Takahashi , Shunji Nagaya
- Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oliff PLC
- Priority: JP 11108214 2011.05.13
- The original application number of the division: US14945063 2015.11.18
- Main IPC: H04N23/663
- IPC: H04N23/663 ; G03B13/34 ; G03B17/14 ; G03B17/56 ; G03B17/18

Abstract:
An exchangeable lens includes: a mount unit at which a camera body is detachably engaged; a plurality of drive target members, conditions of which change as a drive force is applied thereto; an initialization unit that executes initialization processing for each of the plurality of drive target members; an initialization status transmission unit that transmits initialization statuses, each indicating a status of the initialization processing executed for one of the drive target members, to the camera body via a first transmission path over predetermined first cycles; and a drive condition transmission unit that transmits a drive condition of at least one drive target member among the plurality of drive target members to the camera body via a second transmission path different from the first transmission path over predetermined second cycles different from the predetermined first cycles.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220210315A1 EXCHANGEABLE LENS AND CAMERA BODY Public/Granted day:2022-06-30
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