US 2014/0368616 A1 · IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS

Abstract

An image pickup apparatus includes: an image pickup unit; a first connection unit that allows a stereoscopic shooting interchangeable lens and an ordinary shooting interchangeable lens to be selectively attached thereto so that an image of a subject can be formed on the image pickup unit; a second connection unit that allows a finder including two display units corresponding to a right eye and a left eye, the finder being capable of displaying a plurality of images, and a finder including a single display unit, the finder being capable of displaying a single image, to be selectively attached thereto; and a display control unit that controls display of an image picked up by the image pickup unit on the finder, based on at least one of information on the interchangeable lens connected to the first connection unit and information on the finder connected to the second connection unit.

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Dependent claims

An image pickup apparatus comprising:

an image pickup unit;
a first connection unit that allows a stereoscopic shooting interchangeable lens and an ordinary shooting interchangeable lens to be selectively attached to the first connection unit so that an image of a subject can be formed on the image pickup unit;
a second connection unit that allows a finder including two display units corresponding to a right eye and a left eye, the finder being capable of displaying a plurality of images, and a finder including a single display unit, the finder being capable of displaying a single image, to be selectively attached to the second connection unit;
and
a display control unit that controls display of an image picked up by the image pickup unit on the finder, based on at least one of information on the interchangeable lens connected to the first connection unit and information on the finder connected to the second connection unit.

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A stereoscopic shooting interchangeable lens apparatus comprising:

a joint unit that allows the stereoscopic shooting interchangeable lens apparatus to be attached/detached to/from a lens mount of a camera main body including an image pickup device;
a stereoscopic image pickup optical system including a plurality of light ray incident surfaces, the stereoscopic image pickup optical system forming a plurality of parallax images having parallax according to positions of the plurality of light ray incident surfaces, on the image pickup device;
a correction parameter storing unit that stores a correction parameter used for electrically correcting an image formed by the stereoscopic image pickup optical system;
and
a communication unit that when the joint unit is connected to the lens mount of the camera main body, transmits the correction parameter stored in the storing unit to the camera main body.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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