Image capture apparatus having multi-function rotary device and protective cover
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKenya Nishiwaki, Junichi Maniwa
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Abstract
An image capture apparatus includes: an image capture optical system; a rotary device rotatable from an initial position in a first direction and rotatable from the initial position in a second direction; a protective cover that performs an opening action to expose (uncover) the image capture optical system in response to rotation of the rotary device from the initial position in the first direction, and that performs a closing action to cover the image capture optical system in response to rotation of the rotary device from the initial position in the second direction; and an energizing member that returns the rotary device to the initial position.
Claims32
An image capture apparatus comprising:
- (A) a protective cover for opening and closing a front of an image capture optical system;
- (B) a rotary device which brings said protective cover into an opening action by rotating from an initial position in a first direction and which brings said protective cover into a closing action by rotating from the initial position in a second direction;
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- (C) an energizing member for returning said rotary device to the initial position.
An image capture apparatus comprising:
- (A) a protective cover for opening and closing a front of an image capture optical system;
- (B) a rotary device which brings said protective cover into an opening action by rotating from an initial position in a first direction and which brings said protective cover into a closing action by rotating from the initial position in a second direction;
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- (C) a control device for bringing the image capture apparatus into an activated condition in response to rotation of said rotary device in the first direction, said control device switching action modes to different action modes in response to each rotation of said rotary device in the first direction while the image capture apparatus is in the activated condition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.