IP Library Granted Patent US 12,262,116
Granted Patent B2
US 12,262,116 · App. 18/300,283 · Granted Mar 25, 2025

Imaging apparatus

Inventor: Hiroshi Nakamura (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
H04N23/684G06F3/016
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Patent No.
US 12,262,116
App. No.
18/300,283
Granted
Mar 25, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An imaging apparatus includes a vibration device and a control substrate for outputting vibration. The control substrate controls the vibration device to vibrate during a period including a readout period of an image signal from an imaging device in an image capturing sequence. A vibration direction of the vibration device is arranged so as to be parallel with a direction of a readout wiring line (vertical signal line) of the imaging device.

Claims (14)

1. An imaging apparatus comprising:

an imaging device;

an operation unit configured to instruct an image capturing start of the imaging device;

a vibration device;

a control unit configured to feedback a tactile sensation to a user by operating the operation unit to vibrate the vibration device; and

a plurality of readout wiring lines configured to read out information from pixels in the imaging device,

wherein, in a case where the control unit performs a feedback control of the tactile sensation using the vibration device during a readout period of an image signal from the imaging device in an image capturing sequence, the readout wiring lines are arranged in a direction parallel with a vibration direction of the vibration device.

2. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein an induced electromotive force vector generated due to a leakage magnetic flux generated at a vibration time of the vibration device has a vector parallel with an imaging plane of the imaging device.

3. The imaging apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the imaging device is a layered type sensor.

4. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein in the image capturing sequence, the control unit does not perform the feedback control of the tactile sensation using the vibration device during an accumulation period of the image signal by the imaging device.

5. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the control unit starts the feedback control of the tactile sensation using the vibration device after the operation unit is operated, continues the feedback control of the tactile sensation during the image capturing sequence, and ends the feedback control of the tactile sensation before starting a next image capturing sequence.

6. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the readout wiring lines of the imaging device are arranged parallel with a substrate surface on which the imaging device is mounted, and

wherein an induced electromotive force vector generated due to a leakage magnetic flux generated at a vibration time of the vibration device has a vector perpendicular to an imaging plane of the imaging device.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 2, 2023
From: NAKAMURA, HIROSHI
To: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 063499/0741 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2022-073272 · Apr 27, 2022 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230353875A1 · Nov 2, 2023
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