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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2021
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Syohei Uchida, Tokyo, JP;
Takuya Hasegawa, Tokyo, JP;
Masayuki Miyazawa, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuhiro Kondo, Tokyo, JP;
Masayuki Miyazaki, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsu Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Daiki Kondo, Tokyo, JP;
SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A lens barrel includes a lens drive unit that moves a lens holder holding a lens in an optical axis direction, a locking mechanism that regulates movement of the lens holder at a movable end of the lens holder, and a control unit that performs, as a shift process for shifting the lens holder to a movement regulated state produced by the locking mechanism, control for moving the lens holder by using the lens drive unit to a position where movement regulation is achieved by the locking mechanism in a state where movement regulating force generated by the locking mechanism is reduced.