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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2014
Olympus Corporation, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Koichi Shintani, Tokyo, JP;
Katsuhisa Kawaguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Haruyuki Ishihara, Tokyo, JP;
Osamu Nonaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit that includes a shooting lens for collecting an image of a subject to be shot; and an imaging element that forms the image collected by the shooting lens and generates image data through photoelectric conversion of formed image. The imaging apparatus also includes an inclination detector that detects an inclination of the imaging apparatus from a predetermined position, through a rotation around a shooting optical axis of the shooting lens. The apparatus also includes a control unit that changes an operating mode to a switchable state capable of switching between operating modes when a predetermined time has elapsed in a state in which the inclination detected by the inclination detector falls within a predetermined range in which the operating modes of the imaging apparatus are switched to each other.