Nikon Corporation

Miwatec Incorporated

Hidefumi Ota

Daiki Tsukahara

Shigemasa Sato

Toshiaki Maeda

Kazuya Umeyama

Nobuya Kawahata

Tomoaki Kawamura

Akihiko Kawai

Teppei Okuyama

Yoh Wakamizu

Satoshi Hara

Yuichirou Satou

An image sensor includes: a first imaging region that captures an image of light entering through an optical system under a first imaging condition and generates a detection signal to perform focus detection of the optical system; and a second imaging region that captures an image of the light entering through the optical system under a second imaging condition other than the first imaging condition and generates an image signal.

Image sensor and imaging device including a plurality of semiconductor substrates

Image sensor and electronic device having imaging regions for focus detection extending in first and second different directions

A lens barrel attached to an imaging device, including a focus lens unit that is movable in an optical axis direction; an actuator that moves the focus lens unit along the optical axis direction; a drive control section that controls drive of the actuator; and a setting section that is capable of setting a movement range of the focus lens unit to be one of a first range and a second range that differ from each other with respect to at least one of one end and another end, each range defining the range in which the focus lens unit is allowed to move. Even when the movement range of the focus lens unit is set by the setting section to be one of the first range and the second range, the drive control section removes the setting of the movement range when instructions are received from the imaging device.

Lens barrel, replacement lens, imaging device, and control program

Provided is a lens barrel comprising a lens holding member that holds a lens; a guide axle that extends in a direction parallel to an optical axis of the lens; and an oil-retaining bearing that is fixed to the lens holding member, and into which the guide axle is slidably inserted. In the lens barrel, the guide axle and the oil-retaining bearing may be made of metal, and at least a portion of the lens holding member to which the oil-retaining bearing is fixed may be made of resin.

Lens barrel and image capturing apparatus

The lens barrel has a first lens unit that is disposed at the object side and changeable between a first state, a spacing of the lenses is a predetermined spacing, and a second state, the spacing of the lenses is narrower than in the first state; a second lens unit that is disposed at the image side and capable of changing a focusing state by moving along the optical axis; a restricting member that restricts the change of the first lens unit from the first state to the second state; and driving unit that, in a state in which the change to the second state is restricted by the restricting member, moves the second lens unit toward the image side, wherein the restricting member releases the restriction in association with a completion of the movement of the second lens unit by the driving means.

Lens barrel and imaging device

An imaging device comprises a lens barrel having an optical system with an adjustable focal point, and has a first state can focus relative to an imaging face, and a second state can not focus relative to the imaging face, a changing unit for changing the lens barrel from the second state to the first state when the imaging unit is activated, a discriminating unit which discriminates whether the state of the barrel is the first state or the second state, and a control unit which, at a time of activating the imaging unit, changes the lens barrel to the first state by the changing unit if it is discriminated that the state of the barrel is the second state, and which maintains the first state if it is discriminated that the state of the barrel is the first state.

Imaging device and lens barrel

A camera capable of conducting a wireless communication includes a wireless communication circuit and a wireless communication antenna. The wireless communication antenna, which is disposed at a non-metal movable member that can advance and retreat relative to a camera body, moves relative to the camera body.

Camera and exchangeable lens barrel with wireless communication function

Problems to be Solved Surgical operation or others excellent in operability, safety, operation efficiency and precision are realized by outputting a vertical-torsional composite vibration through conversion processing of the longitudinal vibration from an ultrasonic oscillation mechanism and reducing the displacement speed of the non-working plane in a female portion less than the speed of the working plane. Means to Solve the Problem A configuration, comprising an ultrasonic oscillation mechanism composed of a longitudinal vibration element, a backing plate and a front plate for generating an ultrasonic vibration, a horn coupled with the ultrasonic oscillation mechanism for amplifying the vibration transmitted from said ultrasonic oscillation mechanism, a vibration conversion mechanism for converting the vibration transmitted from said ultrasonic oscillation mechanism into a composite vibration composed of a longitudinal vibration in the horn central axial direction and a torsional vibration having the horn central axis as fulcrum, and a female portion provided with a working plane and disposed at said horn tip, wherein said ultrasonic oscillation mechanism is composed of one or more groove portions formed on the circumferential surface of the horn or said backing plate, and a speed variation mechanism of torsional vibration in said composite vibration is formed in the female portion, in order to reduce the reciprocating rotation speed of the non-working plane less than the speed of the working plane.

Coupling vibration ultrasonic hand piece

An electronic camera includes: a substantially rectangular parallelepiped image-capturing unit main body provided with an image-capturing device for generating an image signal by capturing an optical image formed by a photographic lens unit; a substantially rectangular parallelepiped display unit main body provided with an external display device for displaying an image based upon the image signal generated by the image-capturing device; and a linking portion that links the image-capturing unit main body and the display unit main body in a manner that the image-capturing unit main body and the display unit main body can rotate relative to each other. And, at the display unit main body, a shutter release button is provided and a grip portion is provided near an end surface furthest away from the image-capturing unit main body; and at the image-capturing unit main body, an optical viewfinder unit is provided beside the photographic lens unit.

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