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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2017
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Kato, Utsunomiya, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A controller includes: operating member having movable range for operating a movable optical member; setting device setting relation between operation amount in entirety of movable range and command value in part of an operating range of the movable optical member; controller generating signal for controlling operation of the movable optical member, based on the set relation and an operation amount of the operating member in the movable range; and switcher switching mode between first mode causing the entirety of the movable range to correspond to entirety of the operating range, and second mode causing the entirety of the movable range to correspond to the part of the operating range. The setting device sets the relation such that a point in the operating range corresponding to a reference point, set by the setting device, in the movable range is unchanged in any of the first or second mode is selected.