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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2020
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Kota Asano, Utsunomiya, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 7/00 (2021.01); G03B 9/06 (2021.01); G03B 17/14 (2021.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 7/00 (2013.01); G03B 9/06 (2013.01); G03B 17/14 (2013.01);
Abstract
A lens apparatus includes an aperture stop, a driving device configured to drive the aperture stop, a storage storing a driving instruction value for driving the aperture stop, and a controller configured to perform control of the driving device based on the driving instruction value. The storage stores the driving instruction value, among a plurality of ones of the driving instruction value, by which an absolute value of a difference, between a target aperture value and an actual aperture value obtained by the control, that is largest with respect to a plurality of ones of the drive amount is minimized.