US RE50,210 E1
Apparatus that performs zooming operation, control method therefor, and storage medium
Koji Sudo, Machida (JP); and Shin Murakami, Kawasaki (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 16, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/819,254.
Application 16/819,254 is a reissue of application No. 14/719,559, filed on May 22, 2015, granted, now 10,075,638, issued on Sep. 11, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 2014-111059 (JP), filed on May 29, 2014.
Int. Cl. H04N 23/667 (2023.01); H04N 23/63 (2023.01); H04N 23/69 (2023.01); H04N 101/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 23/667 (2023.01) [H04N 23/631 (2023.01); H04N 23/633 (2023.01); H04N 23/69 (2023.01); H04N 2101/00 (2013.01)] 79 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic apparatus comprising:
a memory and at least one processor which function as units comprising:
a zooming operation unit configured to accept a zooming operation by a user in which a zoom position of a taking lens is changed; and
a control unit configured to provide control to, in response to start of the zooming operation, start shifting the zoom position, and in response to termination of the zooming operation, stop shifting the zoom position,
wherein when the zoom position reaches a predetermined zoom position which (1) is inside an optical zoom range and (2) is neither an optical wide-angle end nor an optical telephoto end while said control unit is shifting the zoom position in a first direction in response to a first zooming operation by a user for shifting the zoom position in the first direction, said control unit provides control to fix [ stop shifting ] the zoom position at the predetermined zoom position even when the first zooming operation by the user has not been terminated, and after that, said control unit provides control to shift the zoom position further in the first direction from the predetermined zoom position (a) in response to the first zooming operation being terminated once and the first zooming operation being started again and/or (b) in response to the first zooming operation having been continued for a predetermined time period or longer without being terminated.