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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2019
Olympus Corporation, Hachioji, JP;
Keiji Kunishige, Hachioji, JP;
Masashi Takahashi, Hachioji, JP;
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An imaging device that is capable of having a fisheye lens attached to a main body, and that is capable of shooting digital images, comprising, an image sensor on which photometric domains and/or AF region are arranged, a lens communication circuit that performs communication with a lens that has been attached and acquires lens information, and a processor that detects whether or not a lens that has been attached is a circular fisheye lens based on the lens information, and, if it has been determined that the lens is a circular fisheye lens, restricts the photometric domains and/or AF regions based on an image circle of the circular fisheye lens.