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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2010
Keisuke Hirai, Utsunomiya, JP;
Keisuke Hirai, Utsunomiya, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, , JP;
Abstract
The image pickup system is constituted by a lens apparatus including a focus lens and an image pickup apparatus performing image pickup through the lens apparatus. The system includes an operating part being operated to instruct a movement of the focus lens, a controller performing focus position control to move the focus lens to a position corresponding to an operation amount of the operating part, a ranging part detecting an object distance in each of plural ranging areas included in an image pickup region, and a determining part determining a distance range where the object distances detected in the plural ranging areas are distributed. The system further includes a changing part changing a relationship between the operation amount of the operating part and the position of the focus lens in the focus position control according to a determination result by the determining part.