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Automatic focus control device

US4816856A · kind A · utility

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34Claims
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Filing dateMar 30, 1987
Grant dateMar 28, 1989
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Expiry dateMar 30, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02B7/34
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In an automatic focus control device of a camera there are provided defocus amount calculation means for calculating a defocus amount for a predetermined focus plane of a photographic lens in the camera on the basis of the electric signal generated by a light receiving means, comparing means for comparing the obtained value on the basis of the calculated defocus amount with a reference value, control means controlling driving speed of the photographic lens by the lens driving means in response to the comparison result of a comparing means, photographic condition setting means for setting the photographic condition and reference value setting means for setting said reference value in response to the set photographic condition.

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