Abstract:
A portable video camera with adjustable motor driving signals for optimizing power consumption including a zoom lens and a focusing lens driven by stepping motors, a drive signal generating circuit for generating drive signals to the stepping motors, an external input device for receiving an external motor driving speed and motor direction input from a user, a control circuit for estimating drive loads to the stepping motors based on the external motor driving speed and motor direction input from the user and for producing an amplitude control signal corresponding to the external input, and a circuit for controlling an amplitude of the drive signals based on the amplitude control signal produced by the control circuit for estimating drive loads and for feeding the amplitude of the drive signals to the drive signal generating circuit.
Abstract:
An automatic focusing circuit comprises: a lens section including a focusing lens; photoelectric converting means for photoelectrically converting an amount of light which passed through the lens section; a first filter having first frequency characteristics to extract a first high frequency component from a luminance signal; a second filter which is used to extract a second high frequency component from said luminance signal and which has frequency characteristics steeper than those of the first filter; optical black level detecting means for detecting an optical black level of an image pickup signal; and a control section to control the focusing lens on the basis of the optical black level and the first and second high frequency components.
Abstract:
It is determined which of six continuous sections having different magnitude correlation of signal amplitude of each phase of an input three-phase signal a section is. Predetermined subtraction is performed between respective phases in the section, to obtain a normalized amplitude value normalized in the section, using the subtraction result. The normalized amplitude value is converted to a vector phase for one cycle based on a predetermined phase and output corresponding to the determined section.
Abstract:
An automatic focus control method and apparatus are capable of correctly controlling the focus even when an object having a high contrast enters or leaves goes out from a distance measurement frame during the focusing operation. A control microcomputer monitors the detecting position of the focusing signal generated by an automatic focus detection circuit. If the control microcomputer concludes that the detecting position of the focusing signal is in a peripheral area of the distance measurement frame, the control microcomputer outputs a distance measurement frame control signal to change the location or the size of the distance measurement frame so that an object having a high contrast no longer either enters or goes out from the distance measurement frame.
Abstract:
It is determined which of six continuous sections having different magnitude correlation of signal amplitude of each phase of an input three-phase signal a section is. Predetermined subtraction is performed between respective phases in the section, to obtain a normalized amplitude value normalized in the section, using the subtraction result. The normalized amplitude value is converted to a vector phase for one cycle based on a predetermined phase and output corresponding to the determined section.
Abstract:
It is determined which of six continuous sections having different magnitude correlation of signal amplitude of each phase of an input three-phase signal a section is. Predetermined subtraction is performed between respective phases in the section, to obtain a normalized amplitude value normalized in the section, using the subtraction result. The normalized amplitude value is converted to a vector phase for one cycle based on a predetermined phase and output corresponding to the determined section.
Abstract:
An image which is seen as a natural feeling can be attained in such a manner that a resolution of a photographed image is kept substantially constant irrespective of any variation in condition of an optical system such as an iris diaphragm diameter and a zoom position. For example, in the case that it is adapted for an iris diaphragm diameter, an MTF corresponding to a variation of an iris diaphragm diameter is measured (FIG. 6A) and then a gain of an output of an aperture control circuit capable of canceling a reduction of high frequency component of the image signal corresponding to the measured MTF (FIG. 6B). Then, an iris diaphragm diameter varied during a photographing operation is detected, a gain set in response to the detected iris diaphragm diameter is applied to the aperture control circuit, thereby a control is carried out such that an amplitude of the high frequency component of the brightness signal (FIG. 6C) being kept substantially constant without having any relation with the iris diaphragm.
Abstract:
An electrical power efficiency of the driving circuit is improved. The OP amplifier in the control arithmetic circuit compares a controlling amount with an added value of a target value and an AC signal and then outputs the comparing signal to the driving circuit. Since the transistor in the driving circuit is controlled in switching by the comparing signal, its loss of electrical power is reduced. Accordingly, an electrical power efficiency of the driving circuit is improved. In addition, the driving circuit drives the actuator section, a controlling amount of the actuator is detected by the position sensing unit and it is fed back as the controlling amount to the controlling arithmetic circuit.
Abstract:
A lens driving device for an image pickup apparatus in which there is no problem of defocusing of an object caused by changes in the light stop state after manual or automatic focusing with respect to an object. The lens driving device includes a focusing correction amount calculation circuit 27 for calculating the amount of focus correction from the focus position from a focus position detection circuit 26 responsive to the zooming position from a zooming position detection circuit 28 and to a signal S.sub.1 from a light stop value sensor 13. The lens driving device also includes an adder 24 for summing the focusing correction amount to the focusing displacement from an autofocusing displacement calculation circuit 21 or a manual focusing displacement calculation circuit 22 via a signal switching unit 23. The resulting sum is outputted as a displacement of a focusing lens.
Abstract:
It is determined which of six continuous sections having different magnitude correlation of signal amplitude of each phase of an input three-phase signal a section is. Predetermined subtraction is performed between respective phases in the section, to obtain a normalized amplitude value normalized in the section, using the subtraction result. The normalized amplitude value is converted to a vector phase for one cycle based on a predetermined phase and output corresponding to the determined section.