US 2007/0182833 A1Published application

Image-capturing apparatus

AssigneeEastman Kodak Company

InventorToshiyuki Toyofuku

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Abstract

A digital camera has a first optical system having a wide zoom lens and a second optical system for a telephotography zoom lens. In an initial state where power is active, a controller and timing-generator controls the wide zoom lens so as to be situated at a wide position and the telephotography zoom lens so as to be situated at a telephotograph position. When zoom-in is effected, the wide zoom lens is actuated, and the telephotography zoom lens is maintained at the telephotograph position. When a zoom position of the wide zoom lens has reached a threshold zoom position set to a wider angle of view than that achieved at the telephotograph position, the telephotography zoom lens starts being actuated toward the wide position. When the zoom lens has reached the telephotograph position, an image signal is switched from the wide zoom lens to the telephotography zoom lens, and the selected image signal is output.

Claims4

Dependent claims

An image-capturing apparatus having

a plurality of image-capturing systems which can be individually changed in terms of an angle of view and which differ from each other in terms of a range where the angle of view is changed;
means for selecting one from the plurality of image-capturing systems and rendering the selected image capturing system operative;
and
means for changing an angle of view of the operative image-capturing system, in accordance with an external input, wherein
each of the image-capturing systems other than the operative image-capturing system is configured so as to be able to assume a value of a first angle of view outside the range where the angle of view of the operative image-capturing system is changed and a value of a second angle of view adjacent to the range where the angle of view of the operative image-capturing system is changed;
and
the image-capturing apparatus further comprises
switching means for switching the angle of view of each of the image-capturing systems other than the operative image-capturing system between the value of the first angle of view and the value of the second angle of view, in accordance with a setting of the angle of view of the operative image-capturing system made by the changing means.

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