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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019
Filed:
May. 19, 2016
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Goro Noto, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G03B 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23287 (2013.01); G03B 3/00 (2013.01); H04N 5/232 (2013.01); H04N 5/23212 (2013.01); H04N 5/23241 (2013.01); G03B 2205/0061 (2013.01);
Abstract
To provide an imaging apparatus capable of maintaining good performance even if it is used in a high-humidity environment, the imaging apparatus is equipped with a detecting unit for detecting an environment of a photographing optical system, and a control unit for controlling an actuator of driving the photographing optical system to perform a first operation and a second operation of performing maintenance of the photographing optical system, and driving the actuator in the second operation at a timing according to the environment.