Sony Corporation

Tokusuke Tsujimoto

Koichi Sadatsuki

Rui Morisawa

Koichi Maeyama

Koji Izumi

Shinsaku Hirano

Shinichi Kano

Video camera

An image capturing apparatus includes: an image acquisition unit operable to acquire a plurality of captured images at least relating to the focus control among images captured by an image capturing unit; an image comparison unit operable to compare focus states of focus positions of the plurality of captured images acquired by the image acquisition unit; an out-of-focus determination unit operable to determine which captured images are not in focus, the captured images being included in the plurality of captured images compared by the image comparison unit; and an error display signal generating unit operable to generate a signal for displaying an error region on the display unit for the captured image determined to be out-of-focus by the out-of-focus determination unit.

Image capturing apparatus and method for out-of-focus determination and correction

An image capture apparatus has an electronic view finder assembly. The assembly has a casing including inner and outer casings; an accommodation spacing, an opening, a cover, an eye cup portion, a stopper, and a dust prevention cushion. The accommodation spacing accommodates the inner casing held in the same extension direction as the outer casing. The opening is provided in the outer casing for insertion of the inner casing into the accommodation spacing. The cover closes the opening. The eye cup portion is attached to a rearward end of the outer casing. A stopper stops forward movement of the inner casing accommodated in the accommodation spacing in the state of the opening closed by the cover. The dust prevention cushion is interposed in a compressed state between overall circumferential peripheries of respective rearwardly facing and forwardly facing wall faces of the inner and outer casings in the state where the forward movement of the inner casing is stopped by the stopper.

Image capture apparatus

An electronic apparatus including: an enclosure constituting an outer case of the apparatus; a receiving recess, formed of a bottom wall and a side wall uprising from a circumference of the bottom wall, disposed on the enclosure as opened outward; a holding member, formed of a vibration relaxing material capable of relaxing vibrations, received in the receiving recess; a supporting piece for supporting the holding member within the receiving recess such that a space is secured between the holding member and the bottom wall; a recess for microphone formed on a face, facing outward, of the holding member as opened outward, in a condition of the holding member being supported by the supporting piece within the receiving recess; a microphone inserted into the recess for microphone; and a grill disposed to cover a side of the holding member facing outward, in a condition of the holding member being supported by the supporting piece within the receiving recess, the grill being provided with a plurality of through holes made in its portions facing the microphones.

Electronic apparatus equipped with a microphone

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Tokyo, Japan

Tokusuke Tsujimoto