Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Exchangeable lens and camera body
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Application No.: US14697215Application Date: 2015-04-27
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Publication No.: US09225892B2Publication Date: 2015-12-29
- 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: JP2011-108214 20110513
- Main IPC: G03B17/14
- IPC: G03B17/14 ; H04N5/232

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
- US09319577B2 Exchangeable lens and camera body Public/Granted day:2016-04-19
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