Camera with an interrupting unit, and camera with an inhibiting unit
AssigneeNikon Corporation
InventorHirotake Nozaki
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Abstract
When at least a portion of an aperture of a lens part is covered with some object, both adjusting of the sensitivity of an image pickup part and display of “though image” are inhibited. Also, it is able to shorten a length of time for which the camera enters into a power saving mode, and to prevent capture of improper images. Provided herein is a determining unit for determining whether at least a portion of the aperture of the lens part is covered. When the determining unit determines that it is covered, the camera inhibits the sensitivity adjustment of the image pickup part and the display of “though image”, shortens the length of time after which the camera enters into the power saving mode, interrupts shooting or continuous shooting, or a movie imaging, and inhibits a flash emission.
Claims1
An electronic camera, comprising:
- a lens part being position-changeably mounted on a body of the electronic camera;
- a position changing unit changing the lens part between a storage position and a shooting-possible position in accordance with a degree of rotational position changing of the lens part, the storage position being a position where an aperture of the lens part is completely covered with the body of the electronic camera and where an almost continuous flat outermost surface is formed by the lens part and the body of the electronic camera, and the shooting-possible position being a position where the aperture of the lens part is not covered with the body of the electronic camera and sticks out from the body of the electronic camera;
- a determining unit determining whether the lens part is located at an unsuitable position for shooting an image in which at least a portion of the aperture of the lens part is hidden by the body of the electronic camera;
- a movie imaging unit imaging a movie;
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- an imaging interrupting unit interrupting the movie imaging of the movie imaging unit when the determining unit determines, during the movie imaging, that the lens part is located at the unsuitable position for the movie imaging;
- a counting unit resetting sleep timer of the electronic camera to a time shorter than a default time when the determining unit determines that the lens part is located at the unsuitable position for movie imaging.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.