Optical member control apparatus, image capture apparatus, and control method

    公开(公告)号:US11962882B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-16

    申请号:US17223301

    申请日:2021-04-06

    发明人: Tomohiro Sugaya

    IPC分类号: H04N23/55 G02B7/00 G02B26/02

    摘要: An optical member control apparatus comprises a first optical member and a second optical member that are arranged to be movable on the same plane that intersects an optical path of light that enters an image capturing element, and when movement is performed to insert either one of the first optical member and the second optical member into the optical path and to retract the other of the first optical member and the second optical member from the optical path, performs control such that movement of the optical member that is to be inserted into the optical path is started after movement of the optical member that is to be retracted from the optical path is started and before the movement is complete.

    Optical limiter and method for limiting radiant flux

    公开(公告)号:US11774785B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-03

    申请号:US17995165

    申请日:2021-03-10

    发明人: Marco Menchetti

    IPC分类号: G02F1/01 G02B6/35 G02B26/02

    摘要: This disclosure relates to an optical limiter for limiting the radiant flux of an optical source beam, including an optical control port for illumination by an optical control beam originating from the source beam; an optical input port for illumination by an optical transmission beam originating from the source beam; an optical output port for illumination by the transmission beam; and a thermally driven light mill; wherein the light mill is arranged with respect to the input port, the control port and the output port such that: illumination of the control port by the control beam drives the light mill to rotate only when the control beam has a radiant flux equal to or in excess of a predetermined radiant flux threshold; and rotation of the light mill causes an area of the output port illuminated by the transmission beam to change.