Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image pickup apparatus and control method thereof
- Patent Title (中): 摄像装置及其控制方法
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Application No.: US12337893Application Date: 2008-12-18
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Publication No.: US08154624B2Publication Date: 2012-04-10
- Inventor: Ryunosuke Iijima
- Applicant: Ryunosuke Iijima
- 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: JP2007-338411 20071228
- Main IPC: H04N5/262
- IPC: H04N5/262

Abstract:
An image pickup apparatus that has an optical zooming unit and an electronic zooming unit includes a temperature detector configured to detect a temperature of the image pickup apparatus, and a controller configured to move the electronic zooming unit along with an operation of the optical zooming unit, and to move a telephoto end for control of the optical zooming unit toward a wide-angle side according to the temperature detected by the temperature detector. Along with control to move the telephoto end of the optical zooming unit to the wide-angle end, the controller sets smaller than a change rate of a zoom magnification of an electronic zooming unit in a first zoom region a change rate of a zoom magnification of an electronic zooming unit in a second zoom region that is adjacent with and closer to the telephoto end than the first zoom region.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090167898A1 IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF Public/Granted day:2009-07-02
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