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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2017
Olympus Corporation, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshinobu Omata, Hachioji, JP;
Tetsuo Kikuchi, Hachioji, JP;
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A focus adjustment apparatus includes a circuit. The circuit is configured to determine a defocus value based on an output of an image sensor to calculate a position where the focus lens attains focus as a target position; detect a focal distance of the photographing lens; store the target position, which is calculated based on an output from a detection operation by the image sensor, in association with the focal distance at the time of the detection operation; determine a reference focal distance and calculate a corrected target position by correcting the stored target position so as to correspond to the reference focal distance; calculate a predicted position by performing moving object prediction calculation based on the corrected target position; and move the focus lens based on the predicted position.