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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2015
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 13/02 (2006.01); G03B 17/04 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/369 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 17/04 (2013.01); G03B 13/02 (2013.01); H04N 5/2251 (2013.01); H04N 5/2252 (2013.01); H04N 5/23245 (2013.01); H04N 5/23293 (2013.01); G06F 2200/1614 (2013.01); H04N 5/369 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is provided an image pickup apparatus including: a main body provided with an image pickup section; a viewfinder capable of performing state transition between a housed state in which the viewfinder is housed in the main body and a usage state in which the viewfinder projects from the main body; a first detection section configured to detect use of the viewfinder unit by a user; and a control section configured to turn on or turn off the first detection section based on the state transition.