Sony Corporation

Chiaki Ikeyama

Yujiro Ito

Naoki Inomata

Susumu Kurita

Tsutomu Shimosato

Jun Sawai

Noboru Oya

Masaki Nakasuji

A switch has a detection portion that contains a magnetic-field-sensing element and an attraction member. The attraction member generates a magnetically attracting force. The detection portion generates a switching signal based on an output of the magnetic-field-sensing element.

Switch and recording medium

An autofocus apparatus of an imaging apparatus is one having an estimation-value calculating unit for obtaining a plurality of estimation values by using a plurality of areas and a plurality of filters for extracting a horizontal-direction frequency component in a specific image area of a video signal corresponding to a specific image area and supplied from an imaging apparatus for effectively carrying out an autofocus operation of a television camera, a signal processing unit for calculating a control value used for controlling an image pickup lens drive unit of the imaging apparatus in response to an estimation value calculated by the above estimation-value calculating unit, and an output unit for supplying the above control value to the above image pickup lens drive unit. The autofocus apparatus includes a control program for determining a focus detection direction by decision by majority of a plurality of weighted estimation values obtained by combination of the above plurality of areas and the above plurality of filters.

Focus control method and video camera

Focus control method and video camera apparatus

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Tokyo, Japan

Chiaki Ikeyama