Backlash compensation for automatic focusing apparatus

Photography – With exposure objective focusing means – focusing aid – or... – Lens drive circuit or motor structure

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396134, G03B 1336

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ABSTRACT:
A focus detecting apparatus including an optical system having a group of focusing lenses, an object distance measuring device which measures the amount of defocus for a specific object imaged by the focusing optical system, a focus judging device which judges the focus state in accordance with the measurement of the object distance measuring device and a lens driver for driving the focusing lens group to a focal position, in accordance with the amount of defocus, wherein the apparatus includes a controller for repeatedly operating the object distance measuring device and the lens driver, and a moving object judging device for judging that the specific object is a moving object when the focus judging device judges the out-of-focus state more than one time during the repeated operations.

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