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Automatic focus adjusting device

US4974002A · kind A · utility

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10Claims
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Filing dateFeb 22, 1989
Grant dateNov 27, 1990
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Expiry dateFeb 22, 2009

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02B7/36
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An automatic focus adjusting device which takes into account a change in the position of the image plane of an object caused by movement of the object during the focus adjusting operation time and makes a lens in focus to the moving object. The position of the image plane of the object after the focus adjusting operation time is foreseeing-calculated with the result of a past focus adjusting operation as a factor, and the current focus adjusting operation time is foreseen in conformity with the foreseeing-calculated value, and the position of the image plane of the object is again foreseeing-calculated with the foreseen time as a factor.

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