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US 2015/0085156 A1Published application
Imaging device
AssigneeOlympus Imaging Corp.
InventorsKazunori Yuge, Tetsuya Takagi
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Abstract
An imaging device comprises a lens barrel including an optical system that collects light from a predetermined viewing area and that defines an optical axis; an imaging unit that receives the light collected by the optical system and generates image data, the image data defining a main image that includes a determined sub area; a ring-shaped operation ring that is provided on an outer circumference of the lens barrel and that is manually rotatable about the optical axis of the optical system; and an area change unit that changes at least one of (A) a size of the determined sub area, or (B) a position of the determined sub area, responsive to a manual operation of the operation ring.
Claims11
An imaging device comprising:
- a lens barrel including an optical system that collects light from a predetermined viewing area and that defines an optical axis;
- an imaging unit that receives the light collected by the optical system and generates image data;
- a ring-shaped operation ring that is provided on an outer circumference of the lens barrel, that is rotatable about the optical axis of the optical system and that includes a plurality of notches formed on an inner periphery along a periphery of the ring-shaped operation ring;
- a pressing unit that is provided on the lens barrel, that supports a ball movably forward/backward between a first state in which the ball is engaged with the notch and generates a click sound and a second state in which the ball is apart from the notch and does not generate the click sound;
- an input unit that receives input of an instruction signal that switches between the first and second states at a time of operating rotation of the ring-shaped operation ring;
- a control unit that switches between the first and second states at the time of operating rotation of the ring-shaped operation ring in accordance with the instruction signal input from the input unit;
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- a parameter change unit that changes an imaging parameter of the imaging device in accordance with an operation of the ring-shaped operation ring.
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An imaging method for an imaging device comprising:
- a lens barrel including an optical system that collects light from a predetermined viewing area and that defines an optical axis;
- an imaging unit that receives the light collected by the optical system and generates image data;
- a ring-shaped operation ring that is provided on an outer circumference of the lens barrel, that is rotatable about the optical axis of the optical system and that includes a plurality of notches formed on an inner periphery along a periphery of the ring-shaped operation ring;
- a pressing unit that is provided on the lens barrel, that supports a ball movably forward/backward between a first state in which the ball is engaged with the notch and generates a click sound and a second state in which the ball is apart from the notch and does not generate the click sound, the method comprising:
- receiving input of an instruction signal that switches between the first and second states at a time of operating rotation of the ring-shaped operation ring;
- switching between the first and second states at the time of operating rotation of the ring-shaped operation ring in accordance with the input instruction signal;
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- changing an imaging parameter of the imaging device in accordance with an operation of the ring-shaped operation ring.
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An imaging device comprising:
- a lens barrel including an optical system that collects light from a predetermined viewing area and that defines an optical axis;
- an imaging unit that receives the light collected by the optical system and generates image data;
- a post-processor that processes the image data generated by the imaging unit;
- a controller that controls (1) an image capturing operation of the imaging unit, and (2) a processing operation of the post-processor;
- a ring-shaped operation ring that is provided on an outer circumference of the lens barrel and that is both manually rotatable about the optical axis of the optical system and manually rotatable lever between first and second positions;
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- a parameter change unit that changes a parameter of at least one of the image capturing operation of the imaging unit or the processing operation of the post-processor, responsive to a manual operation of the rotatable lever.
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An imaging device comprising:
- a lens barrel including an optical system that collects light from a predetermined viewing area and that defines an optical axis;
- an imaging unit that receives the light collected by the optical system and generates image data;
- a ring-shaped operation ring
- being provided on an outer circumference of the lens barrel,
- being manually rotatable about the optical axis of the optical system,
- having a first operating state under which manual rotation of the ring-shaped operation ring by a user provides a first type of haptic/tactile feedback to the user, and
- having a second operating state under which manual rotation of the ring-shaped operation ring by a user provides a second type of haptic/tactile feedback to the user;
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- a rotatable lever unit for changing an operation mode of the ring-shaped operation ring between the first operating state and the second operating state.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.