Photography – Having variable focal length of camera objective – Power zoom
Patent
1998-06-22
2000-06-13
Adams, Russell
Photography
Having variable focal length of camera objective
Power zoom
396133, 396135, 396136, 396261, G03B 1700
Patent
active
060759453
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to a lens apparatus employed in a video camera. The present invention provides a lens apparatus, suited to manipulation of an operator, using a vibratory wave motor as a driving source for driving a photographing lens of the lens apparatus, wherein on the occasion of change of a driving direction, application of cyclic signals to a piezoelectric device of the motor is suspended and thereafter application of cyclic signals to the piezoelectric device is restarted.
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patent: 4896179 (1990-01-01), Watanabe et al.
patent: 4984000 (1991-01-01), Watanabe et al.
Adams Russell
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
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