Patent ID: 8565590

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: a supplying section configured to supply a driving command for driving at least a portion of a lens in a specific direction to a focal-point adjustment device for changing or adjusting a focal-point distance in accordance with power supplied to said focal-point adjustment device; and an inference section configured to infer a position, at which said lens is located after being driven in accordance with said driving command in said specific direction, on the basis of said driving command supplied to said focal-point adjustment device and on the basis of error information serving as information on an error of a driving quantity by which said lens driven by said focal-point adjustment device is moved, wherein said inference section infers a predetermined range including the present position of said lens, wherein, in order to drive said lens to move to any specific one of the two ends of a driving range of said lens, said supplying section supplies said driving command on the basis of said inferred predetermined range and said error information, wherein said error information includes: information on errors for a case in which said driving quantity of said lens moving in one driving operation carried out by said focal-point adjustment device is largest; and information on errors for a case in which said driving quantity of said lens moving in one driving operation carried out by said focal-point adjustment device is smallest.