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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2003
Michelle Ogg, Loveland, CO (US);
David K. Campbell, Loveland, CO (US);
Gregory V Hofer, Loveland, CO (US);
Masahiro Ohno, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshihiro Yamazaki, Tokyo, JP;
Michelle Ogg, Loveland, CO (US);
David K. Campbell, Loveland, CO (US);
Gregory V Hofer, Loveland, CO (US);
Masahiro Ohno, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshihiro Yamazaki, Tokyo, JP;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A focus lens and a zoom lens group having a first zoom lens and a second zoom lens are controlled separately from one another in an internal-focus camera. The positions of the focus lens and the second zoom lens in the zoom lens group are tracked, and are controlled to approach no closer to one another than a minimum safe distance to avert collisions between the focus lens and the second zoom lens.