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US 10,241,382 B2Granted
State transitions of viewfinder in image pickup apparatus
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsMayuko Sato, Fumikazu Hatanaka, Toshiyuki Kaimi
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Abstract
There is provided an image pickup apparatus including: a main body provided with an image pickup section; a viewfinder capable of performing state transition between a housed state in which the viewfinder is housed in the main body and a usage state in which the viewfinder projects from the main body; a first detection section configured to detect use of the viewfinder unit by a user; and a control section configured to turn on or turn off the first detection section based on the state transition.
Claims19
An image pickup apparatus, comprising:
- a main body that comprises an image pickup section;
- a viewfinder that comprises a main body part and a movable part, wherein the viewfinder is configured to:
- transition from a housed state to a popup state, wherein the viewfinder is inside the main body of the image pickup apparatus in the housed state, and the viewfinder is projected outside the main body in the popup state based on a movement of the viewfinder in a first direction;
- and
- transition from the popup state to a usage state based on a movement of the movable part in a second direction with respect to the main body part of the viewfinder, wherein the second direction is different from the first direction;
- a first detection section configured to detect use of the viewfinder;
- and
- a control section configured to one of turn on or turn off the first detection section based on a transition between the housed state and the usage state.
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An image pickup apparatus, comprising:
- a memory section;
- a main body that comprises an image pickup section;
- a viewfinder that comprises a main body part, a movable part movable with respect to the main body part, and a visibility adjustment section, wherein
- the viewfinder is configured to transition between a housed state in which the viewfinder is inside the main body and a usage state in which the viewfinder is projected outside of the main body, and
- the visibility adjustment section is configured to:
- execute a visibility adjustment operation based on a user operation;
- and
- store data of the visibility adjustment operation in the memory section;
- a detection section configured to detect use of the viewfinder;
- and
- a control section configured to one of turn on or turn off the detection section based on the transition between the housed state and the usage state.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.