Abstract: The maximum principal ray incident angle to an image surface is reduced in an image pickup device provided with an image pickup element. The image pickup device includes an image pickup lens, the image pickup element, and a cover glass. In the image pickup device, the cover glass is stuck on the image pickup element without containing air between them. In addition, in the image pickup device, the maximum incident angle of principal rays from the image pickup lens, to the cover glass is larger than 35 degrees. Furthermore, in the image pickup device, the refractive angle of the cover glass is at least 5 degrees smaller than the maximum incident angle.

Abstract: An embodiment comprises: a lower surface; a first lens barrel comprising a first protrusion protruding from the lower surface; a first lens array comprising a plurality of first lenses disposed in the first lens barrel; a first holder comprising a first hole into which the first protrusion is inserted; a first adhesive member disposed between a lower surface of the first lens barrel around the first protrusion and an upper surface of the first holder around the first hole; and a first image sensor disposed under the first hole, wherein the first adhesive member comprises one end and the other end, which are disposed to encompass the first hole, and the one end and the other end of the first adhesive member are spaced apart from each other.

Abstract: An electronic device such as a head-mounted device may have displays that are viewable by the eyes of a viewer through adjustable lenses. The adjustable lenses may be liquid crystal lenses. A camera and other sensors in the head-mounted device may monitor the eyes of the user and gather other information. Control circuitry in the head-mounted device may control the adjustable lenses based on measured characteristics of the eyes of the user such as interpupillary distance and direction-of-view. The control circuitry may match the distance between the centers of the adjustable lenses to the measured interpupillary distance and may align the lens centers with the measured direction-of-view. The adjustable lenses may have transparent electrodes that are supplied with time-varying control signals by the control circuitry.

Abstract: Various embodiments include an interlock arrangement that may be used to attach a lens barrel to a lens carrier of a camera. In some embodiments, the interlock arrangement may restrict movement of the lens barrel relative to the lens carrier along at least an optical axis. In various examples, the interlock arrangement may include one or more grooves and one or more protrusions. For instance, a groove may be defined by the lens barrel or the lens carrier, and a protrusion may extend from the lens barrel or the lens carrier to at least partially into the groove. In some cases, the interlock arrangement may include an adhesive that at least partially fills gaps within the interlock arrangement between the lens barrel and the lens carrier. According to some embodiments, the interlock arrangement may include one or more recesses that provide inlets for the adhesive to be introduced to the gaps within the interlock arrangement.

Abstract: A camera body at which one or more camera accessories, at which light from a subject enters, are detachably mountable, includes: a body-side terminal; and a communication unit that communicates with at least one of the camera accessories, wherein: the communication unit requests, via the body-side terminal, the camera accessory for a discriminating signal indicating whether or not another camera accessory capable of communicating with the camera body is mountable on a subject side of the camera accessory.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera lens assembly. The camera lens assembly includes, sequentially along an optical axis from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens. The first lens has a positive refractive power, an object-side surface of the first lens is a convex surface, and an image-side surface of the first lens is a concave surface. Each of the second lens and the third lens has a positive refractive power or a negative refractive power. The fourth lens has a positive refractive power, and an image-side surface of the fourth lens is a convex surface. The fifth lens has a negative refractive power, and an object-side surface of the fifth lens is a concave surface. An effective semi-diameter DT52 of an image-side surface of the fifth lens and half of a diagonal length ImgH of an effective pixel area on an image plane of the camera lens assembly satisfy: 0.75<DT52/ImgH<1.

Abstract: An imaging optical lens assembly includes four lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element and a fourth lens element. Each of the four lens elements has an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an image-side surface facing toward the image side. At least one of all lens surfaces of the four lens elements is aspheric and has at least one inflection point.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes: a pixel portion where pixels of a plurality of colors are arranged in a first direction and a second direction as repetition of a basic array, and an arbitrary pixel is divided into a plurality of divided pixels in the first direction; a mixing portion configured to generate processed pixel signals from image data generated by all divided pixels existing in the pixel portion by performing pixel reduction of a plurality of divided pixel signals related to a same color and a same division position; and a managing/instructing portion configured to, in a case of prioritizing phase difference detection, control the pixel reduction by the mixing portion so that the processed pixel signals are not arranged at regular intervals in the second direction.

Abstract: The present application relates to a display device. The display device includes a body; a display screen disposed on the body. The display screen includes a first display region and a light transmissive region. The first display region has a light emitting surface facing away from the body, a light receiving module located between the display screen and the body, a second display region disposed between the display screen and the body, and the second display region is configured to compensate the light transmissive region to display image information in the light transmissive region; and a light path structure positioned between the display screen and the body.

Abstract: An accessory removably attachable to a camera body and including a plurality of terminals, includes: a first terminal; a second terminal through which a first power supply voltage is supplied from the camera body; a third terminal; a fourth terminal; a fifth terminal; a sixth terminal; an eighth terminal that receives a first clock signal of a first cycle from the camera body; a seventh terminal; a ninth terminal; a tenth terminal that outputs a second clock signal of a second cycle to the camera body, the second cycle being longer than the first cycle; and an eleventh terminal, wherein: a distance between the tenth terminal and the second terminal is longer than a distance between the eighth terminal and the second terminal.

Abstract: An endoscope includes a single lens that has a square exterior shape in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis, an image sensor that has an square exterior shape which is same as the exterior shape of the single lens, in the direction perpendicular to the optical axis, a sensor cover that has an exterior shape which is same as the exterior shape of the single lens, in the direction perpendicular to the optical axis; and a bonding resin portion that fixes the sensor cover to the single lens, The single lens is a lens which is formed in a prismatic shape. The single lens has first surface on an imaging subject side that has a plane, and has second surface on an imaging side that has a convex surface.

Abstract: A camera and a terminal including the same are disclosed. The camera according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a first prism apparatus to reflect a first input light input in a first direction to a second direction; a second prism apparatus to reflect a second input light input in a third direction opposite to the first direction to the second direction, and output the reflected second input light to the first prism apparatus; a lens apparatus to receive the first input light from the first prism apparatus or the second input light from the second prism apparatus; and an image sensor configured to generate an image signal based on the first input light or the second input. Accordingly, it is possible to implement a slim camera that can use a single image sensor at the time of front photographing and rear photographing.

Abstract: One embodiment comprises: a housing; a bobbin, which is arranged inside the housing and is for mounting a lens; first coils arranged around the outer peripheral surface of the bobbin; a first magnet arranged in the housing; a second magnet arranged at the bobbin and spaced from the first coils; and a first position sensor arranged in the housing and sensing the intensity of a magnetic field of the second magnet, wherein the length of the second magnet in the direction of an optical axis is shorter than the length of thereof in the direction perpendicular to the direction of the optical axis.

Abstract: An accessory removably attachable to a camera body and including a plurality of terminals, includes: a first terminal; a second terminal through which a first power supply voltage is supplied from the camera body; a third terminal; a fourth terminal; a fifth terminal; a sixth terminal; an eighth terminal that receives a first clock signal of a first cycle from the camera body; a seventh terminal; a ninth terminal; a tenth terminal that outputs a second clock signal of a second cycle to the camera body, the second cycle being longer than the first cycle; and an eleventh terminal, wherein: a distance between the tenth terminal and the second terminal is longer than a distance between the eighth terminal and the second terminal.

Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens having a positive refractive power, a fifth lens having a negative refractive power, and a sixth lens having a negative refractive power. The first to sixth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side to an imaging plane. An Abbe number of the second lens is 21 or less.

Abstract: An optical image stabilization (OIS) of a camera system includes a controller, a lens and an image stabilizing arrangement (ISA), including one or both of an actuator mechanically coupled with the lens. The controller is configured to: (1) receive measured accelerometer data relating to camera orientation with respect to a gravitational field and causes the actuator to locate the lens at a gravity-adjusted neutral position; and/or (2) synchronously relocate, during a time interval that falls at least partially between a first successive frame and a second successive frame, one or both of the camera lens and an image sensor by controlling a slew motion of the camera lens or image sensor, monitor and controls one or more of exposure time, effective readout time, lens relocation time and frame period, and rebalance the auto exposure algorithm such that the exposure time is less than a critical value.

Abstract: The imaging lens consists of, in order from an object side, a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a positive refractive power, a stop, a third lens group having a negative refractive power, and a fourth lens group. The first lens group has, in order from the object side, a positive single lens, and two or more cemented lenses. The second lens group consists of a positive lens and a negative lens. During image blur correction, only the third lens group moves. A conditional expression relating to the back focal length Bf and the lens system total length TTL is satisfied: 2<TTL/Bf<3.6.

Abstract: A stereo camera device with tilted fields of view is provided, which includes a pair of camera devices located such that respective fields of view (FOVs) of the pair of camera devices are tilted away from each other, and at least partially overlapping in a common working FOV. The device further includes a processor which receives respective images from each of the pair of camera devices, combines respective portions of the respective images corresponding to the common working FOV into stereo images.

Abstract: The lens tube includes a cylindrical barrel, a holder, a cap, and a stress applying portion. The barrel houses at least one first lens. The holder houses an imaging element and is fixed to a substrate. The holder is configured to allow one end of the barrel in an axial direction to be screwed into the holder such that an optical axis of the first lens and an optical axis of the imaging element are aligned with each other. The cap is mountable to the barrel by allowing the other end of the barrel in the axial direction to be screwed into the cap. The stress applying portion is located between the holder and the cap when the barrel is screwed into the holder and the cap, and applies a stress in a direction in which the cap is separated from the holder. The first lens is held and fixed between a first stopper formed on the cap and a second stopper formed in the barrel when the cap is mounted to the barrel.

Abstract: An optical imaging lens includes: first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth lens element, the first lens element has negative refracting power, the third lens element has negative refracting power, and an optical axis region of an image-side surface of the sixth lens element is concave. The lens elements having refracting power included by the optical imaging lens are only the six lens elements described above. In addition, the optical imaging lens satisfies the relationship: (G23+T3+G34+T4+G45)/G12?2.600 and ?3+?4+?5+?6?150.000.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an imaging optical lens assembly, including, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with negative refractive power having an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, a second lens element with positive refractive power, a third lens element with negative refractive power, a fourth lens element with positive refractive power, and a fifth lens element with negative refractive power having an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region and at least one convex shape in an off-axial region on the image-side surface, wherein the imaging optical lens assembly has a total of five lens elements.

Abstract: Some embodiments disclosed herein relate to an auxiliary optical device having one or more optical components, such as lenses, attached to a retainer portion. The retainer portion is configured to removably attach to mobile electronic devices such as mobile phones, tablet computers, media players, and the like. The retainer portion may include a movable mounting portion that achieves or maintains a substantially parallel orientation with respect to a face of a mobile electronic device even when a sidewall of the retainer portion is not parallel with respect to the face. An optical component may be mounted to the mounting portion, and movement of the mounting portion can facilitate a parallel orientation of the optical axis of the optical component with respect to an optical axis of an onboard camera of the mobile device.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes a pixel section in which a pixel for image is divided into a plurality of pixels for focus detection that generate photoelectric conversion signals, the pixel section generating a pixel signal for image and pixel signals for focus detection on the basis of the photoelectric conversion signals, and a device control section or the like configured to control the pixel section to perform, in a frame, first readout for generating both of a pair of the pixel signals for focus detection and reading out the pair of pixel signals for focus detection and perform, in another frame, second readout for generating one of the pair of pixel signals for focus detection, adding up the photoelectric conversion signals to generate the pixel signal for image, and reading out one of the generated pixel signals for focus detection and the pixel signal for image.

Abstract: An imaging optical lens system includes seven lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element. Each of the seven lens elements has an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an image-side surface facing toward the image side. The object-side surface of the first lens element is convex in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element has negative refractive power. At least one surface among the object-side surfaces and the image-side surfaces of the seven lens elements has at least one critical point in an off-axis region thereof.

Abstract: An imaging lens assembly includes six lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The image-side surface of the fifth lens element has at least one inflection point.

Abstract: One embodiment of a camera module may comprise: a lens barrel having a hollow formed therein, comprising at least one lens aligned in the optical axis of the hollow; a holder having formed therein an internal space in which a part of the lens barrel is accommodated; a casing coupled to the holder and having formed therein an internal space in which a printed circuit board is accommodated; and a first heater which is electrically connected to the printed circuit board to heat the lens.

Abstract: An imaging element includes microlenses, first pixel portions, and second pixel portions. The microlenses are arranged in first and second directions. The first and second pixel portions correspond to the microlenses. The first pixel portions include light receiving portions, which are pupil-split in the first direction. The second pixel portions include light receiving portions, which are pupil-split in the first direction. The light receiving portions include a light receiving region and a non-light receiving region along the second direction. The first pixel portions are arranged in the first direction and the second direction. The second pixel portions are substituted for some of the first pixel portions and are adjacently or discretely arranged in the second direction.

Abstract: Various embodiments include an interlock arrangement that may be used to attach a lens barrel to a lens carrier of a camera. In some embodiments, the interlock arrangement may restrict movement of the lens barrel relative to the lens carrier along at least an optical axis. In various examples, the interlock arrangement may include one or more grooves and one or more protrusions. For instance, a groove may be defined by the lens barrel or the lens carrier, and a protrusion may extend from the lens barrel or the lens carrier to at least partially into the groove. In some cases, the interlock arrangement may include an adhesive that at least partially fills gaps within the interlock arrangement between the lens barrel and the lens carrier. According to some embodiments, the interlock arrangement may include one or more recesses that provide inlets for the adhesive to be introduced to the gaps within the interlock arrangement.

Abstract: An image acquisition device including: an imaging optical system forming two images having parallax; and an element acquiring the parallax images, the imaging optical system includes: a first negative lens group having negative refractive power; a first positive lens group having positive refractive power; and a second positive lens group having positive refractive power, the first negative lens group includes two negative lens groups disposed side by side in the parallax direction and having central axes respectively, the first positive lens group is a common lens group having a single central axis, and light rays emitted from the negative lens groups pass therethrough, the second positive lens group includes two positive lens groups disposed side by side in the parallax direction and having central axes respectively and the first positive lens group includes a moving lens group moved along the central axis of the first positive lens group.

Abstract: An optical image capturing system and an electronic using the same are disclosed. The optical image capturing system includes at least two lenses, an image plane, and a first position element. In certain condition, the design of the optical image capturing system may simantaneously inhibit the deviation of effect focal length and improve the imagining quality in response to temperature fluctuation.

Abstract: There are provided a variable magnification optical system and a control method thereof which are capable of relatively accurately adjusting a positional relationship between a variable magnification optical device and an imaging surface of an imaging device according to a zoom amount. A zoom lens included in the variable magnification optical device is positioned at a telephoto end and a wide angle end, and shift amounts ?S1 and ?S2, tilt angles ?1 and ?2, rotation angles ?1 and ?2, and focusing adjustment amounts ?1 and ?2 of the variable magnification optical device are set by a user and are stored. In a case where a zoom amount of the zoom lens is set to a desired value by the user, a shift amount corresponding to the set zoom amount is calculated by using the stored shift amounts ?S1 and ?S2. The positional relationship between the variable magnification optical device and the imaging surface of the imaging device is adjusted so as to have the calculated shift amount.

Abstract: A lens unit is provided capable of reducing the shift of the focal position when the temperature rises. The lens unit includes a plurality of lenses and a cylindrical holder configured to internally hold the plurality of lenses. The holder has a smaller coefficient of thermal expansion, compared to single lenses (i.e., the second lens and the third lens) that are meniscus-shaped plastic lenses. The side surfaces of the second lens and the third lens are press-fitted such that the concave side portions corresponding to the positions of the concave lens surfaces abut the inner surface of the holder, the second lens and the third lens including the concave lens surfaces and the convex lens surfaces. Therefore, when the ambient temperature rises, the refractive index of the plastic lens decreases but the convex lens surface deforms such that the curvature radius becomes smaller.

Abstract: Embodiments generally relate to systems and methods for separating an emulsion in a cavity of a device such as a liquid lens device. In one embodiment, the method comprises at least one of: applying a bias voltage to electrodes in the device, causing at least one of droplet migration, flattening of large droplets, and reduced droplet surface tension; applying an oscillating actuation voltage waveform comprising an actuation frequency to the electrodes, such that fluid pumping and turbulence is created within the device cavity; and applying an oscillating excitation voltage waveform comprising an excitation frequency to the electrodes, such that the varying electric field created by the oscillating voltage causes small droplets of the first liquid to coalesce.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally discloses single-aperture multi-sensor lensless compressive image acquisition capabilities. The present disclosure generally discloses a single-aperture multi-sensor lensless camera including a programmable aperture and a set of sensors. The programmable aperture is configured to modulate an amount of light permitted to pass through the programmable aperture and has a shape defined based on a set of vertices of the programmable aperture. The sensors are arranged, with respect to each other, based on the vertices of the programmable aperture. The sensors may be arranged such that respective reference lines, between the respective vertices of the programmable aperture and the respective sensors, are parallel or substantially parallel.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus, to which a lens apparatus can be attached, includes an imaging unit that executes charge accumulation in synchronization with a reference signal and generates an imaging signal, a control unit that controls the data communication with an attached lens apparatus and executes focus detection by using data received from the lens apparatus. The control unit executes data communication with the lens apparatus in a first communication mode in which predetermined data is periodically communicated in synchronization with the reference signal. When a predetermined operation that instructs preparation for still image shooting is being carried out by a user, the control unit changes the first communication mode to a second communication mode in which the control unit executes data communication with the lens apparatus out of synchronization with the reference signal.

Abstract: The present application discloses various focusing methods and apparatuses, and various photographing devices. The focusing method includes: controlling deformation of an image sensor so that reference points of at least two imaging sub-areas of the image sensor after the deformation form a first relative position relationship in a staggered arrangement along a depth direction; acquiring contrast data of a sampling image of an object in the at least two imaging sub-areas; and determining and/or adjusting, according to at least the first relative position relationship and the contrast data, a focusing state of the image sensor. The present application can improve a speed and/or accuracy for determining and/or adjusting the focusing state of the image sensor.

Abstract: In an optical system which includes a positive lens Gp and in which a distance on an optical axis from an object-side lens surface of a lens disposed closest to an object side to an image surface is shorter than a focal length of an entire system, an arrangement and a material of the positive lens Gp, and an arrangement of a focus unit are set appropriately.

Abstract: The lens tube includes a cylindrical barrel, a holder, a cap, and a stress applying portion. The barrel houses at least one first lens. The holder houses an imaging element and is fixed to a substrate. The holder is configured to allow one end of the barrel in an axial direction to be screwed into the holder such that an optical axis of the first lens and an optical axis of the imaging element are aligned with each other. The cap is mountable to the barrel by allowing the other end of the barrel in the axial direction to be screwed into the cap. The stress applying portion is located between the holder and the cap when the barrel is screwed into the holder and the cap, and applies a stress in a direction in which the cap is separated from the holder. The first lens is held and fixed between a first stopper formed on the cap and a second stopper formed in the barrel when the cap is mounted to the barrel.

Abstract: An optical system is able to capture images of at least a portion of a candidate's face within a near field, a medium field, and a far field. For images captured within the near field, data representing the candidate's iris may be captured from the image and compared to know iris data. For images captured within the medium field, data representing the candidate's iris and facial featured may be captured from the image and compared to know iris data and facial data. For images captured within the far field, data representing the candidate's facial features may be captured from the image and compared to know facial data.

Abstract: A device comprising at least two body sections is disclosed. The first body section comprises a movable imaging unit and a magnet rigidly fixed to the imaging unit, and the second body section comprising an optical unit with a magnet rigidly fixed to the optical unit. The body sections are in a movable connection with each other, and the device is operable in at least two modes. In the first mode, the imaging unit and the optical unit are fixed in a set relative position due to magnetic interaction between the magnets. In the second mode, the imaging unit is positioned away from the optical unit.

Abstract: A protective cover assembly includes a protective cover having a cover plate body with opposite inner and outer cover plate surfaces, and a through hole extending through the inner and outer cover plate surfaces and defined by a hole-defining wall having a stepped surface. An attachment member is removably embedded in the through hole, and includes a base plate, an outer flange extending outwardly from and surrounding the base plate, a main hole extending through the base plate, and an annular protrusion protruding from an inner peripheral edge of the main hole and extending out of the through hole. The outer flange has a first flange surface flush with a base plate surface of the base plate, and a second flange surface abutting against the stepped surface.

Abstract: Provided is a three-dimensional (3D) viewing device, comprising a body adapted to connect to a head-worn device, having a space therein, and a base side and opposite lateral sides neighboring thereto, the body comprising two openings symmetrically formed on the opposite lateral sides respectively; two displays disposed in the space; two light sources disposed in the space at the base side, and oriented toward the two displays respectively; and two sets of projection lenses disposed in the space at the two openings respectively, adapted to project the images of the two displays out of the two openings toward the two eyes of the head-worn device user, respectively. A 3D viewing and interacting system thereof is also provided.

Abstract: An optical imaging module includes six lens elements, the six lens elements being, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element has negative refractive power. The second lens element has an image-side surface being concave. The third lens element has an image-side surface being convex. The fourth lens element has positive refractive power. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has an object-side surface being concave and an image-side surface being convex. The sixth lens element has an image-side surface being concave, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the sixth lens element are both aspheric, and the image-side surface of the sixth lens element includes at least one inflection point.

Abstract: A control unit 15 is provided at an imaging system 10. The control unit 15 controls a mode relating to imaging of an imaging apparatus according to fixation relationship information indicating fixation relationship between the imaging apparatus and an information processing apparatus in a fixation state in which the imaging apparatus and the information processing apparatus are fixed to each other. For example, a fixation relationship determining unit 92 of the imaging apparatus 20 determines the fixation relationship between the imaging apparatus 20 and the information processing apparatus 60 based on the fixation relationship information, and a control unit 45 controls the mode relating to imaging of the imaging apparatus 20 based on the determination result.

Abstract: Present embodiments provide for an optical imaging lens. The optical imaging lens includes a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element positioned in an order from an object side to an image side. Through forming convex or concave portions on the surfaces of the lens elements and designing parameters satisfying at least an inequality, the improved optical imaging lens may provide better optical characteristics while the total length of the optical imaging lens may be shortened.

Abstract: A camera module, which is mounted on an inside of a front windshield of a vehicle and to image an external environment of the vehicle, includes a lens unit and an imager to image the external environment by forming an optical image, which is from the external environment through the lens unit.

Abstract: The lens tube includes a cylindrical barrel, a holder, a cap, and a stress applying portion. The barrel houses at least one first lens. The holder houses an imaging element and is fixed to a substrate. The holder is configured to allow one end of the barrel in an axial direction to be screwed into the holder such that an optical axis of the first lens and an optical axis of the imaging element are aligned with each other. The cap is mountable to the barrel by allowing the other end of the barrel in the axial direction to be screwed into the cap. The stress applying portion is located between the holder and the cap when the barrel is screwed into the holder and the cap, and applies a stress in a direction in which the cap is separated from the holder. The first lens is held and fixed between a first stopper formed on the cap and a second stopper formed in the barrel when the cap is mounted to the barrel.

Abstract: An interchangeable-lens image capture apparatus receives, from an external device, a command to control a zoom adapter for mechanically driving a zoom mechanism in an interchangeable lens from outside the interchangeable lens. The image capture apparatus then transmits the received command to the zoom adapter through the interchangeable lens. A zoom operation can be remotely performed from the external device on a manual zoom lens attached to the interchangeable-lens image capture apparatus, which has a function of communicating with the external device.

Abstract: To improve both of the mechanical reliability and electrical reliability of an electronic apparatus including a piezoelectric body, a vibrator, and a vibration wave motor. The piezoelectric body is configured by bonding a piezoelectric element and a flexible printed circuit substrate FPC, a coverlay has an end N made up of a first outline part and a second outline part that intersect with wiring layers, the first outline part coming in contact with an electrode F1 of electrodes F, and the second outline part coming in contact with another electrode of the electrodes F. Length L1 from an outer-shape line M of the piezoelectric element that intersects with the FPC to the first outline part is shorter than length L2 from the outer-shape line M to the second outline part, and the electrode F1 is located closer to the outer-shape line than the other electrode of the electrodes F.

Abstract: A camera lens with a single optical axis includes a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens having a positive refractive power, and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power. The first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens, the fifth lens, and an image sensor are arranged in sequence from an object side to an image side, where an axial distance between the third lens and the fourth lens is CT34, an axial distance between the fourth lens and the fifth lens is CT45, and the following condition is satisfied: 8.3<CT34/CT45<15.7.