Patent ID: 11857155
Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  G  H | IPC A  G  H

Claim 6:
7. An imaging apparatus comprising:
a processor;
an imaging device; and
a light source,
wherein the processor is configured to determine whether or not the imaging device has gone out of space of which at least part is surrounded by an object when the imaging device is performing imaging after the imaging device is inserted into the space,
the processor is configured to execute power-saving control when the processor determines that the imaging device has gone out of the space,
in the power-saving control, the processor is configured to make power consumption of a control target less than power consumption of the control target before the power-saving control is executed,
the control target is at least one of the imaging device and the light source,
the object is a tubular wall surface,
the processor is configured to estimate distance from the imaging device to the wall surface,
the processor is configured to determine whether or not the distance meets a sixth condition,
the sixth condition represents that the distance is continuously greater than a fourth threshold value in a sixth period, and
the processor is configured to determine that the imaging device has gone out of the space when the distance meets the sixth condition.