Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Haruhisa Ueda

Takahiro Akimoto

Kazuaki Yamana

Takuma Iwagami

Kimihiro Masuyama

Koji Yoshida

Toru Matsumoto

Kenji Yokoyama

Jun Kamiya

Kunihiko Sasaki

Keisuke Morita

Masahisa Tamura

Katsuhiro Inoue

Eriko Sato

Toshinori Yamazaki

Daiyu Ueno

Shigehiro Torii

Takeshi Kikkawa

Koji Tamura

Nobuyuki Furukawa

Ryu Wakui

Seishiro Takano

Hirokazu Izuoka

Takuro Miyajima

Haruki Ota

Sho Nagatsu

Shogo Iwasaki

Keisuke Fukuyo

Shotaro Yanai

Natsumi Sekiguchi

Soichiro Oya

Hitoshi Mizoguchi

An electronic apparatus includes an exterior cover, a circuit board, a first heat generating element, a metal plate, a duct, an air inlet, and an air outlet. Fins, respectively formed on the exterior cover and the metal plate face each other in the duct in a direction orthogonal to the circuit board, have tops that overlap each other in the orthogonal direction, as viewed from a direction parallel to a direction in which the circuit board extends. A distance between the exterior cover fin tip and the metal plate in the orthogonal direction is greater than an amount of the overlap between the exterior cover fin tip and the metal plate fin tip. A distance between the metal plate fin tip and the exterior cover in the orthogonal direction is greater than the amount of the overlap between the exterior cover fin tip and the metal plate fin tip.

Electronic apparatus

An imaging apparatus includes an imaging element that captures an image for detecting a phase difference in a predetermined direction on an image surface in order to detect a focal state of an image formed by an image formation lens, an imaging element driving unit configured to be able to drive the imaging element in a parallel movement direction and a rotation direction within a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the image formation lens, and a focus detection unit configured to detect a focus by rotating the imaging element using the imaging element driving unit in accordance with a result of an image captured by the imaging element.

Imaging apparatus with a rotatable imaging element and capable of focus detection with rotated imaging element

An image capturing apparatus includes a first mount portion and a first cylindrical member that has a color different from a color of the first mount portion and is disposed in a circumferential direction of the first mount portion, an accessory includes an exterior portion, a second mount portion, and a second cylindrical member having a color different from a color of the second mount portion and similar to a color of the first cylindrical member and disposed in a circumferential direction of the second mount portion, and in a state where the accessory is attached to the image capturing apparatus, reference surfaces of the first mount portion and the second mount portion are in contact with each other, and the first cylindrical member and the second cylindrical member are externally exposed regardless of whether the accessory is attached to or detached from the image capturing apparatus.

Image capturing apparatus, accessory, camera system including image capturing apparatus and accessory

Electronic equipment includes a first operating member having a detecting unit to detect touch and slide operations. Where a detecting unit touch detecting face is touched in the touch operation over a first and a second predetermined area, larger than the first predetermined area, or less, a first function is executed. Where the touch detecting face of the detecting unit is touched in the touch operation over more than the second predetermined area, a second function is executed. The touch detecting face is divided into a first, a second, and a third touch detecting face, in that order in a direction of the slide operation. A relation of 1.4&#x2264;W1/W2&#x2264;6.0 is satisfied. W1 represents a length of the touch detecting face in the direction of the slide operation, and W2 represents a length of the second touch detecting face in the direction of the slide operation.

Electronic equipment to perform functions based on different touches to a touch detecting face

An image pickup apparatus that does not disturb an image pickup operation irrespective of an image pickup posture and is capable of reducing generation of image blur. The image pickup apparatus including a main body, a frame part, and at least one operating member. The main body has an image pickup lens. The frame part forms an opening together with a part of the main body and has an opening/closing member that opens/closes the opening. The operating member is used to enter a predetermined pickup instruction and is arranged in at least one of a first surface at an object side and a second surface opposite to the first surface that are parallel to an opening plane of the opening in the main body.

Portable image pickup apparatus with carabiner structure

Electronic equipment includes a first operating member having a touch detecting face, a first display unit provided on a first face where the touch operating face is disposed, a second display unit configured with a larger display area than the first display unit and disposed in a direction orthogonal to a horizontal direction with regard to the touch operating face, and a grip portion configured for a user to grip. The first operating member detects a touch operation and slide operation on a touch operating face. The first operating member is disposed between the first display unit and the grip portion in the horizontal direction.

Electronic equipment having a touch operating face

Electronic equipment includes a first operating unit having a non-electroconductive touch operating surface, a touch detecting surface disposed on a touch operating surface inner side, and an electroconductive outer cover disposed covering a perimeter of the touch operating surface. The first operating unit receives touch operations and slide operations. The touch detecting surface detects the touch operations, is divided into at least two electrode surfaces of a first electrode surface through an N'th electrode surface in a direction of the slide operations, and is electrically insulated from the outer cover by being distanced from the outer cover. The touch operating surface has a touch detection region where the touch operating surface overlaps the touch detecting surface, and a touch-non-detection region disposed on an outer periphery of the touch detection region where the touch operating surface does not overlap the touch detecting surface.

Electronic equipment having a touch operating member that can be operated while viewing display monitors

Electronic equipment includes a first operating member and a protruding portion. The first operating member includes a detecting unit that detects touch operations and slide operations. The protruding portion is disposed adjacent to an operating face of the first operating member in a direction of the slide operations, and protrudes in a direction orthogonal to the direction of the slide operations as to the operating face of the first operating member. A detecting face of the detecting unit is divided into at least two detecting faces of a first detecting face through an N'th detecting face, in order from a side of the protruding portion in the direction of the slide operations. An area of the first detecting face is wider than an area of the N'th detecting face.

Electronic equipment

An image pickup apparatus equipped with an electronic viewfinder, which has a radio antenna arranged therein in a space saving manner while preventing a casing from becoming hot and suppressing electric noise. An electronic viewfinder (EVF) has a display section that displays an image of an object, captured by an image sensor. A wireless communication module has an antenna capable of performing wireless communication and is arranged in a manner overlapping the electronic viewfinder. A metal member is disposed between the wireless communication module and the EVF, and has the wireless communication module fixed thereto. The wireless communication module is thermally connected to a main body structure. The electronic viewfinder is thermally connected to a top cover different from the main body structure.

Image pickup apparatus including thermally isolated radio antenna and thermally isolated electronic viewfinder

In the present invention, first and second operation surfaces are different from each other in any one of amount of protrusion to a back surface side, texture, and color, and a first detection surface is provided over the first operation surface and the second operation surface provided adjacent to an outer edge of the first operation surface on a protruding portion side in a direction of a slide operation.

Electronic device

Included are multiple mount claws, and multiple contact pins following the circumferential direction of a second mount. The second mount can rotate to a first state where multiple claws of a first mount are inserted between the multiple mount claws, and a second state where the multiple mount claws engage the claws in a center axis direction. In the first state, a first mount claw is included in an angle range where a first contact pin of the multiple contact pins and a center axis of the mount are connected in the radial direction of the mount, and a first contact face of the multiple contact faces and the center axis are connected in the radial direction of the mount. The first contact pin and the first contact face come into contact first when rotating from the first state to the second state.

Imaging apparatus and accessory

An imaging apparatus includes: a finder; a grip portion on a side of a first direction relative to the finder; a touch operation member provided on a rear surface of the imaging apparatus on a side of the first direction relative to the finder, on a side of a second direction relative to the grip portion, the second direction being opposite to the first direction, and on a side of a third direction relative to a center of the imaging apparatus, the third direction being perpendicular to the first direction and being oriented from the center toward the finder; and a control unit configured to control the imaging apparatus so as to execute a first function in accordance with a slide operation in the first direction and to execute a second function in accordance with a slide operation in the second direction.

Imaging apparatus

Electronic equipment includes a first operating member having a detecting unit to detect touch and slide operations. Where a detecting unit touch detecting face is touched in the touch operation over a first and a second predetermined area, larger than the first predetermined area, or less, a first function is executed. Where the touch detecting face of the detecting unit is touched in the touch operation over more than the second predetermined area, a second function is executed. The touch detecting face is divided into a first, a second, and a third touch detecting face, in that order in a direction of the slide operation. A relation of 1.4&#x2264;W/W&#x2264;6.0 is satisfied. Wrepresents a length of the touch detecting face in the direction of the slide operation, and Wrepresents a length of the second touch detecting face in the direction of the slide operation.

An image pickup apparatus enabling release time lag reduction. A first holder holds a first mirror and is movable between a first position in an optical path and a second position retracted from the optical path. A second holder holding a second mirror in a state rotatably attached to the first holder is movable between a third position in the optical path and a fourth position retracted from the optical path. An MPU causes an mirror drive unit to rotate the second holder in the third position toward the first holder in the first position, after termination of focus detection when the first and second holder are in the first and third positions, respectively, and before image pickup is instructed, to thereby move the second holder to a fifth position closer to the first holder than the third position is.

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Tokyo, Japan

Haruhisa Ueda