Patent ID: 8873943

Claim:
A lens system comprising: a lens apparatus including a lens unit; and an operating apparatus including an operating unit for operating the lens unit, wherein the operating apparatus and the lens apparatus perform wireless communication to/from each other, wherein the operating apparatus comprises: an operation-side communication unit configured to perform bidirectional communication to/from the operating unit; a command reducing unit configured to reduce a command not to be transmitted to the lens apparatus from commands input from the operating unit; and an answer interpolating unit configured to generate interpolated answer signals by interpolating answer signals with respect to commands that are reduced by the command reducing unit, wherein the lens apparatus comprises: a lens-side communication unit configured to perform bidirectional communication to/from the lens unit; an answer reducing unit configured to reduce an answer signal not to be transmitted to the operating apparatus from answer signals input from the lens unit; and a command interpolating unit configured to generate interpolated commands by interpolating commands received from the operating apparatus.