Patent ID: 9052569
Filing Date: 2015-06-09
Classification: G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An optical instrument, comprising: a body; a lens barrel, capable of being attached to and detached from the body, and a focusing lens arranged inside the lens barrel; a ring member arranged to rotate about the optical axis of the focusing lens of the lens barrel, and arranged to slide along the optical axis between a first position and a second position; a mode setting section, provided on the body, for setting a focusing mode to either auto-focus (AF) mode or manual focus (MF) mode; a focus detection section, provided in the body; and a control section that, (1) when it has been detected that the ring member is at the first position and the AF mode has been set by the mode setting section, carrying out focusing of the focusing lens in accordance with lens control commands corresponding to output of the focus detection section, (2) when it has been detected that the ring member is at the first position and the MF mode has been set by the mode setting section, carrying out focusing of the focusing lens in accordance with rotation of the ring member, and (3) when it has been detected that the ring member has been slid from the first position to the second position, carrying out focusing of the focusing lens in accordance with a distance corresponding to an absolute position of the ring member in rotation direction, regardless of an operating state of AF mode or MF mode, the act of carrying out focusing of the focusing lens in accordance with a distance corresponding to an absolute position of the ring member in rotation direction when it has been detected that the ring member has been slid from the first position to the second position, regardless of an operating state of AF mode or MF mode, being controlled by the control section provided on the lens barrel, and when an operating state is set to AF mode, the control section stops receiving the lens control commands that are transmitted from the body.