Electronic device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9152015-B2
Application number	US-201113580376-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 26, 2011
Priority date	Feb 22, 2010
Publication date	Oct 6, 2015
Grant date	Oct 6, 2015

Abstract

An electronic device, which accepts inputs in a plurality of levels according to pressing loads, includes: a control unit, which performs an autofocus process of automatically adjusting a focus with respect to the photographic subject when a load detecting unit detects a pressing load that satisfies a load standard for accepting a first-level input, and controls so that a still image is acquired, when the load detecting unit detects a pressing load that satisfies a load standard for accepting a second-level input higher than the load standard for accepting the first-level input, wherein, from when the autofocus process starts to when adjustment of the focus with respect to the photographic subject is completed, when the load detecting unit detects the pressing load that satisfies the load standard for accepting the second-level input, the control unit controls so that the still image is not acquired.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electronic device, which accepts inputs in a plurality of levels according to pressing loads, comprising:
an imaging unit, which acquires an image of a photographic subject;
a load detecting unit, which detects a pressing load; and
a control unit, which is configured to:
perform an autofocus process of automatically adjusting a focus with respect to the photographic subject when the load detecting unit detects a first pressing load satisfying a…

Assignees

• Nakayama Shusuke
• Kyocera Corp

Inventors

• Nakayama Shusuke

Classifications

• H04N23/67

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N23/62

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G02B7/08

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/041

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04N5/23212

  Electricity · mapped topic