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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
May. 02, 2023
Applicant:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Yasuhiro Shingu, Osaka, JP;
Tetsuya Uno, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 23/67 (2023.01); G02B 7/10 (2021.01); H04N 23/663 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 23/67 (2023.01); G02B 7/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
A camera system includes a camera body, a lens barrel that is mounted to the camera body and includes at least one movable lens, and a zoom ring drive device that is mounted to the camera body. A first control unit of the camera body controls a second control unit of the lens barrel and a third control unit of the zoom ring drive device so as to move a zoom lens with a DC motor on the basis of information about the characteristic of the zoom lens and an optical characteristic value inputted to an input unit.