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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 15, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Taeko Tanaka, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ; G03B / ; H02P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
396 79 ; 396 90 ; 396136 ; 348345 ; 348358 ; 318696 ;
Abstract
A lens control apparatus drives a lens with a sine wave by means of a pulse motor and detects the position of the lens by counting the number of pulses during the driving of the pulse motor, and stores a stop phase which is reached by a rotor when the pulse motor is brought to a driving-stopped state. When the lens control apparatus is to move the lens to an initial position and initialize a counter for detecting the position of the lens, the lens control apparatus corrects the count value of the counter by using information indicative of the stored stop phase of the rotor.