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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 1996
Filed:
May. 17, 1995
Yosuke Kusaka, Yokohama, JP;
Masaru Muramatsu, Yokohama, JP;
Ken Utagawa, Yokohama, JP;
Shozo Yamano, Tokyo, JP;
Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An automatic focusing apparatus repetitively detects a defocus amount of a photographing lens, discriminates whether or not an object is moving, and calculates a pursuit correction amount for a moving object on the basis of present and previous defocus amounts. When a non-moving object is discriminated, a drive amount of the lens is calculated on the basis of the present defocus amount, and when a moving object is discriminated the drive amount is calculated on the basis of a pursuit drive amount as a sum of the present defocus amount and the pursuit correction amount. A pursuit enable/disable determining device determines whether the drive amount is calculated on the basis of the discrimination result or on the basis of the present defocus amount. When a drive direction of the lens is reversed, the pursuit enable/disable determining device causes calculation of the drive amount of the photographing lens on the basis of the present defocus amount for driving the lens in a predetermined number of drive operations after the reversal.