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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2012
Narihiro Yasuda, Yokohama, JP;
Masaharu Hara, Kamakura, JP;
Narihiro Yasuda, Yokohama, JP;
Masaharu Hara, Kamakura, JP;
Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To provide a camera that can perform a removal operation for particles adherent to a surface upon which light is incident, of a pickup device and a transmitting member disposed on an optical path of the pickup device in such a condition that the particles are properly removed. According to the present invention, a camera comprises a driving mechanism section to drop and remove particles on a cleaning target that is a surface of an image pickup device and/or a surface of a low-pass filter provided closer to a side of a subject in an optical path than the image pickup device, the subject light passing through the low-pass filter, which is provided with: a tilt sensor to detect an orientation of the camera; and a control section to judge whether a removal operation for the particles by the driving mechanism section should be carried out or not in accordance with the detected value from the tilt sensor.