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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 1998
Filed:
May. 16, 1997
Toshifumi Ohsawa, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A camera comprises a lens optical system including a zooming lens, a photographic mode setting circuit capable of selectively setting a plurality of kinds of photographic modes, exposure conditions being individually set for the respective photographic modes, a driving circuit for causing the zooming lens to move, a focus adjusting circuit for performing focus adjustment of the lens optical system, and a controlling circuit for controlling the driving circuit in accordance with a particular photographic mode set by the photographic mode setting circuit and forcedly moving the zooming lens to a position corresponding to a predetermined focal length, the controlling circuit moving the zooming lens before an operation of the focus adjusting circuit.
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