Zoom tracking apparatus
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorAkihiro Kikuchi
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Abstract
A zoom tracking apparatus of a focusing lens in which a position of a focusing lens is controlled to an in-focus position so as to follow a motion of a zoom lens. The apparatus includes components for wobbling the focusing lens or an image pickup device in the front and back directions; and components for controlling front and back wobbling amounts of the focusing lens or the image pickup device, wherein the front and back wobbling amounts of the focusing lens or the image pickup device are changed in accordance with a relation between the position of the zoom lens and the in-focus position of the focusing lens.
Claims16
A zoom tracking apparatus of a focusing lens in which a position of a focusing lens is controlled to an in-focus position so as to follow a motion of a zoom lens, wherein said focusing lens and said zoom lens are included in a first, a second, a third ,and a fourth lens groups, counting from the photographed object side, and wherein said second and fourth lens groups are movable, comprising:
- means for wobbling the focusing lens or an image pickup device in the front and back directions;
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- means for controlling front and back wobbling amounts of the focusing lens or the large image pickup device,
- wherein the front and back wobbling amounts of the focusing lens or the image pickup device are changed in accordance with a relation between the position of the zoom lens and the in-focus position of the focusing lens or the image pickup device.
A zoom tracking apparatus of a photographic apparatus having at least a first fixed lens, a first movable lens, and a second movable lens respectively serially arranged along an optical axis of said photographic apparatus, wherein a position of said first movable lens is controlled to an in-focus position so as to follow a motion of a zoom lens, comprising:
- means for wobbling the first movable lens or an image pickup device in the front and back directions along said optical axis;
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- means for controlling front and back wobbling amounts of the first movable lens of the image pickup device,
- wherein the front and back wobbling amounts of the first movable lens or the image pickup device are changed in accordance with a relation between the position of the second movable lens and the in-focus position of said first movable lens or the image pickup device.
A zoom tracking apparatus of a focusing lens in which a position of a focusing lens is controlled to an in-focus position so as to follow a motion of a zoom lens, comprising:
- means for wobbling the focusing lens or an image pickup device in the front and back directions;
- means for controlling front and back wobbling amounts of the focusing lens or the image pickup device, wherein the front and back wobbling amounts of the focusing lens or the image pickup device are changed in accordance with a relation between the position of the zoom lens and the in-focus position of the focusing lens;
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- a memory for controlling the wobbling amounts and the wobbling amounts being controlled on the basis of the information within the memory, wherein said memory stores the data for compensating focusing position corresponding to the movement of the zoom lens and, wobbling control and the tracking control are executed simultaneously by controlling the movement of the focusing lens.
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