Patent ID: 7885529
Filing Date: 2011-02-08
Classification: G02B,G03B

Abstract:
1. An imaging apparatus, comprising: a power supply; a lens barrel provided with a first lens unit and a second lens unit, each of which is movable in a direction of an optical axis; a first driver that shifts the first lens unit in the direction of the optical axis; a second driver that shifts the second lens unit in the direction of the optical axis; a controller, when electric power is supplied from the power supply or when the power supply is shut off, making the first driver shift the first lens unit so as to perform predetermined process operations for supplying the electric power or shutting off the power supply; and a storage that stores information different between a normal completion state and an abnormal completion state, in which in the normal completion state, the first lens unit and the second lens unit are shifted to storage positions in accordance with a predetermined process operation when the power supply is shut off from a state of the supplying the electric power, and in the abnormal completion state, the apparatus to which electric power is being supplied is completed in a state different from the normal completion state, wherein when electric power is supplied after the abnormal completion state, the first lens unit and the second lens unit are returned to the normal completion state in accordance with the information stored in the storage.