Image pickup apparatus

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2005-09-20

2005-09-20

Moe, Aung (Department: 2612)

Television

Mechanical optical scanning

Moving reflector

Reexamination Certificate

active

06947074

ABSTRACT:
An image pickup apparatus includes a lens as an image pickup optical system having a zooming function, an X-Y address type image pickup device in which a reading position in a two-dimensionally arranged pixels is designated by a combination of an X address and a Y address, an image pickup device driver which performs electronic zooming by changing an address range which is a combination of a range designated by the X address and a range designated by the Y address, and a digital processor which provides a substantially wider zoom range by controlling the electronic zooming and optical zooming in combination than by controlling one of the electronic zooming and the optical zooming.

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Office Action dated Aug. 9, 2004 from the European Patent Office for European Patent Application No. EP 02 007 768.1.

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