Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Shunsuke Miyajima

Hiroyuki Hasegawa

Takayuki Kimura

Daisuke Higuchi

Kento Watanabe

Taro Takita

Masatoshi Otsubo

Shunsuke Kawahara

An information processing apparatus that performs machine learning of a learning model for improving the accuracy of inference of an image even in a case where the characteristics of an image are changed by correction applied to the image. The image processing apparatus includes an image processor configured to perform image processing on a training image and a teacher image according to each of a plurality of correction conditions. Machine learning of the learning model is performed using the training image and the teacher image. A plurality of parameters obtained by performing the machine learning of the learning model are stored in association with the plurality of correction conditions, respectively.

Image processing apparatus that performs machine learning of learning model, method of controlling image processing apparatus, and storage medium

An image pickup apparatus which reduces the time required to achieve correct exposure while reducing deterioration of an aperture and changes in the exposure of an image. A correct exposure is calculated from a subject brightness. A setting value of the aperture is discretely calculated from the correct exposure. A first target value is calculated from a present value of the aperture and the correct exposure. A second target value closer to the setting value than the first target value, is calculated from the present value of the aperture, correct exposure, and first target value. While the aperture is driven to reach the second target value from the first target value, shutter speed and/or gain is changed. The aperture is driven at a first drive speed to reach the first target value and then driven at a second drive speed to reach the second target value.

Image pickup apparatus capable of controlling aperture, control method therefor, and storage medium

A vibration motor controller configured to cause a vibrating member in which a vibration is excited based on two frequency signals having a phase difference to move relatively to a contact member, the vibration motor controller including: a memory configured to store a speed characteristic of the vibrating member with respect to a frequency of the two frequency signals; a controller configured to control a speed of the vibrating member by changing the frequency and/or a phase difference of the two frequency signals; a detector configured to detect the speed; and a changing unit configured to acquire change amount and change direction of the speed characteristic based on comparison between the speed detected by the detector and the speed characteristic stored in the memory, and change an activation frequency being a start point of control conducted by the controller based on the change amount and the change direction.

Vibration motor controller, lens apparatus including the same, and image pickup apparatus including the same

A vibration motor controller controls driving velocity of a vibration motor relatively moving a vibrator and a contactor contacting the vibrator, the vibrator oscillated by an electromechanical energy transducer to which first and second frequency signals having a phase difference are applied, and includes a phase difference determiner storing a relationship between the frequency and phase difference between the first and second frequency signals, and determines the phase difference with respect to the frequency based on the relationship, and a controller controlling velocity of the vibration motor based on the frequency of the first and second frequency signals and the phase difference determined by the phase difference determiner based on the frequency. The relationship between the frequency and phase difference in the phase difference determiner does not include a relationship between frequency lower than a resonance frequency in frequency-velocity characteristics of the vibration motor, and the phase difference.

Vibration motor controller, and lens apparatus and image pickup apparatus that include the same

An AF controller includes: a signal generator configured to generate an image signal pair for each of a plurality of areas in an imaging angle of view; a target position deriver configured to derive a driving target position of a focus lens based on a defocus amount derived by the image signal pair input from the signal generator and based on an acquired position of the focus lens; and a driving command unit configured to output a driving command of the focus lens based on the driving target position, wherein the driving command unit outputs the driving command of the focus lens based on the driving target position in a range of a threshold.

AF controller, lens apparatus including the AF controller and image pickup apparatus

An autofocus apparatus includes a target position calculator for calculating a focus lens target position based on a defocus amount obtained based on the signal of focus detector of a phase difference detecting type and a focus lens position, a target position memory for storing the target position, a speed calculator for calculating an object speed in an optical axis direction based on a present target position, the previous target position, and time period between calculations of present target position and prior target position, and a lens controller for setting, when the object speed changes, a focus lens drive speed based on the present target position, the focus lens position and the object speed and setting, when the object speed does not change, the focus lens drive speed based on a present drive speed, a present defocus amount, and a previous defocus amount.

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Saitama, Japan

Shunsuke Miyajima