US 11,687,158 B2
Imaging apparatus including a vibration device to provide touch sense to the user based on imaging mode
Takazumi Seo, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 19, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/180,482.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-032453 (JP), filed on Feb. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0271325 A1, Sep. 2, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 3/01 (2006.01); H04N 23/51 (2023.01); H04N 23/63 (2023.01); H04N 23/73 (2023.01); H04N 23/959 (2023.01)
CPC G06F 3/016 (2013.01) [H04N 23/51 (2023.01); H04N 23/631 (2023.01); H04N 23/73 (2023.01); H04N 23/959 (2023.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An imaging apparatus having a plurality of switchable imaging modes, comprising:
an imaging start operation member configured to instruct exposure start of imaging;
a vibration device configured to vibrate the imaging apparatus to transfer a touch sense to a user corresponding to the user operation on the imaging start operation member;
a vibration control circuit including a plurality of vibration patterns for controlling driving of the vibration device,
an exterior member attached to the vibration device;
a vibration propagation member in contact with the vibration device; and
a detection member configured to detect an operation of the imaging start operation member from a first position to a second position,
wherein the vibration control circuit changes at least one of a plurality of vibration parameters of the vibration device, including a vibration frequency, an amplitude, and a vibration duration time, based on the imaging mode and the user operation on the imaging start operation member,
wherein the vibration device includes a first vibration mode of vibrating the imaging start operation member in an imaging start state at the second position, and a second vibration mode of vibrating the exterior member at the first position, and
wherein the imaging start operation member does not contact the vibration propagation member at the first position, and the imaging start operation member contacts the vibration propagation member at the second position or before reaching the second position.