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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2015
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); G03B 17/04 (2006.01); G03B 13/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23293 (2013.01); G03B 17/04 (2013.01); H04N 5/2251 (2013.01); G03B 13/08 (2013.01); H04N 5/2256 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is provided an image pickup apparatus including: a main body provided with an image pickup section; a viewfinder having a main body part and a movable part, the viewfinder being capable of performing state transition in which the movable part moves in a first direction with respect to the main body part, to reach a usage state; and a control section configured to perform processing based on the state transition.