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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 03, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Daisuke Hata, Saitama, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 ;
Abstract
In the auto-focus apparatus, a CPU controls an amount of shift of a focus lens system for each sampling when an AF evaluated value is sampled so that the amount of shift is changed according to a number of recording pixels in a CCD. Therefore, even if a CCD having a large number of pixels is utilized the apparatus can perform auto-focusing within a short time.