Imaging device having manual and auto focus and a control...

Details Imaging device having manual and auto focus and a control... Imaging device having manual and auto focus and a control...

2011-07-12

2011-07-12

Whipkey, Jason (Department: 2622)

Television

Camera, system and detail

Optics

C348S350000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07978256

ABSTRACT:
An imaging device, comprising a photographing lens having a manual focus mechanism, an imaging unit for receiving subject light flux, that has been made incident by the photographing lens, on an imaging surface, a display unit for carrying out a live view display operation using image data acquired by the imaging unit, a contrast AF unit for obtaining contrast information of the subject information from image data acquired by the imaging unit and guiding the photographing lens into a specified focus permissible range based on the contrast information, and a control unit for, when a manual focus operation is carried out after executing a focus adjustment operation using the contrast AF unit during the live view display, carrying out control so that there is a transition to a shooting operation without again executing the focus adjustment operation.

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Second Office Action for Chinese Patent Application No. 200810145117.3, mailed Dec. 27, 2010 (5 pgs.) with translation (6 pgs.).

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