Olympus Corporation

Olympus Imaging Corporation

Yasutaka Sawa

Tetsuya Yamamoto

Manabu Ichikawa

Tetsuo Kikuchi

Takeshi Kindaichi

Tomoaki Hatori

Shinichiro Ishikane

Tsutomu Kuroki

Ayako Tsunefuji

A lens interchangeable type camera system, comprising an interchangeable lens and a camera body, comprising a first control section that carries out manual focus control by detecting rotation direction and rotation amount of an operation member, in accordance with a manual focus mode command from a mode setting at a time when the operation member is at the first position, and a second control section that, when the operation member is at a second position, irrespective of a command from a mode setting section, notifies a detection result of a first detection section to the camera body, detects rotational position of the operation member using a third detection section, and forcibly carries out manual focus control based on a rotation position, wherein the lens interchangeable type camera system further comprises a function restriction section that sets operation of the second control section to valid or invalid.

Lens interchangeable type camera, interchangeable lens, and control method for lens

A display apparatus is provided with an information acquisition unit which obtains a current focusing position and a display control unit which generates display data for displaying a focus aid. The focus aid indicates a focusing range and current focusing position, and is displayed in a captured image, such as a live view image.

Display apparatus

A display device includes an image pickup device, a stroboscope, and a stroboscopic image prediction creation unit. The stroboscope applies stroboscopic light to a subject together with the photography by the image pickup device. The stroboscopic image prediction creation unit acquires distance distribution information showing the distribution of distance information relative to the subject of the photography of the subject together with the application of stroboscopic light, and predict in advance, on the basis of the distance distribution information, a stroboscopic image for the photography of the subject together with the application of the stroboscopic light.

Photographic apparatus, stroboscopic image prediction method, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing stroboscopic image prediction program

A focus adjustment unit of the present invention comprises a lens drive section for driving the focusing lens, an image sensor for acquiring imaged data for a subject image, a control section for executing imaging operations using the image sensor by causing movement of the focusing lens, and carrying out scan operations for detecting position of the focusing lens at which a peak of image contrast occurs, a continuous shooting speed setting section for setting a speed for continuously executing exposure operations for shooting, and a limit time setting section for setting an effective limit time effective for carrying out the scan operation in accordance with a continuous shooting speed that has been set by the continuous shooting speed setting section, wherein the control section controls the scan operation so that the time that has been set up by the limit time setting section is not exceeded.

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Fuchu, Japan

Yasutaka Sawa