Electronic apparatus and pointing device for imaging
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYoshiyuki Toyoizumi, Hideyuki Arai, Kazunori Kashimura, Kunio Motohara, Junichi Doi, Hiroshi Hosoe
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Abstract
An electronic apparatus according to this invention has a display unit for displaying an index, an operation unit used for moving the index displayed by the display unit, and an adjustment unit for adjusting the operation unit, so that the moving direction of the index displayed by the display unit matches a moving direction that an operator intended. This invention can provide an effect of matching the moving direction that the operator intended with the actual moving direction of the index.
Claims18
An electronic apparatus which can be used in a hand held state, comprising:
- a body;
- a display unit mounted on said body and arranged to display an index;
- a pointing device including an operation member arranged to actuate a movement of the index displayed by said display unit by operating;
- said operation member and,
- a position adjustment mechanism arranged to reposition and fix said pointing device from a first position to a second position relative to said body by lifting and sliding said pointing device along a surface of said body so as to be able to operate said operation member, when said pointing device is in said first position or in said second position.
An image pickup apparatus comprising:
- a body;
- an image pickup unit having a plurality of image pickup conditions, arranged to pick up an object image;
- a pointing device including an operation member, arranged to actuate said plurality of image pickup conditions by operating said operation member;
- and,
- a position adjustment mechanism arranged to reposition and fix said pointing device from a first position to a second position relative to said body by lifting and sliding said pointing device along a surface of said body so as to be able to operate said operation member when said pointing device is in said second position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.