Camera and optical apparatus
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorYuuki Sakaguchi
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Abstract
A camera includes: a ring-like body mount having an inside diameter smaller than about 48 millimeters; and a solid-state image pickup device arranged oppositely to the body mount, the solid-state image pickup device having a rectangle light receiving section with a diagonal line length of about 43 millimeters or more. An apparent shape of the solid-state image pickup device viewed from a front surface side of the body mount is a rectangle in which one or more corners are oblique.
Claims23
An interchangeable lens being attachable to a camera body, the interchangeable lens comprising:
- a ring-like lens mount that is attachable to a ring-like body mount of the camera body, the ring-like lens mount is configured to engage with a corresponding one or more of a plurality of body-side latches of the ring-like body mount, and
- an optical system configured to form a subject image on a light receiving section of a solid-state image pickup device of the camera body,
- wherein the interchangeable lens is configured to electrically connect to a plurality of body-side contact pins located around the solid-state image pickup device and between the ring-like body mount and the solid-state image pickup device, and
- wherein the ring-like body mount defines an aperture with at least one spatial dimension that is a smaller than a corresponding at least one spatial dimension of the solid-state image pickup device, and
- wherein one or more portions of the ring-like body mount are configured to obscure a corresponding one or more portions of the solid state image pickup device.
An interchangeable lens being attachable to a camera body, the interchangeable lens comprising:
- a ring-like lens mount that is attachable to a ring-like body mount of the camera body, the ring-like lens mount is configured to engage with a corresponding one or more of a plurality of body-side latches of the ring-like body mount, and
- an optical system configured to form a subject image on a light receiving section of a solid-state image pickup device of the camera body,
- wherein the interchangeable lens is configured to electrically connect to a plurality of body-side contact pins located around the solid-state image pickup device and between the ring-like body mount and the solid-state image pickup device,
- wherein the ring-like body mount defines an aperture with at least one spatial dimension that is a smaller than a corresponding at least one spatial dimension of the solid-state image pickup device, and
- wherein one or more portions of the ring-like body mount are configured to obscure a corresponding one or more portions of the light receiving section.
A system comprising:
- a solid-state image pickup device including a light receiving section configured to pick up a subject image;
- a ring-like body mount of a camera body including a plurality of body-side latches, the ring-like body mount defining an aperture with at least one spatial dimension that is smaller than a corresponding at least one spatial dimension of the solid-state image pickup device;
- a plurality of body-side contact pins;
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- an interchangeable lens including
- a ring-like lens mount that is attachable to the ring-like body mount and configured to engage with a corresponding one or more of the plurality of body-side latches,
- an optical system configured to form the subject image on the light receiving section,
- wherein the interchangeable lens is configured to electrically connect to the plurality of body-side contact pins, and
- wherein one or more portions of the ring-like lens mount are configured to obscure a corresponding one or more portions of the solid-state image pickup device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.