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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2006
Hideki Akiyama, Fujisawa, JP;
Peter Labaziewicz, Penfield, NY (US);
Hideki Akiyama, Fujisawa, JP;
Peter Labaziewicz, Penfield, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
An imaging apparatus suppresses deterioration in an image quality caused by an electronic zoom. A digital camera equipped with a plurality of optical systems includes a fixed focal distance lens and a zoom lens. When a user sets a zoom position between discrete optical zoom positions within an overlapping range of the electronic zoom range of the fixed focal distance lens and the optical zoom range of the zoom lens, a control processor and timing generator sets the electronic zoom at the user's setting zoom position. Subsequently, when the zoom position of the zoom lens passes the user's setting zoom position, a photograph is taken, and an optical zoom image is stored in a memory card.