IMAGING APPARATUS

• Main Author: OSAWA MASAHITO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 27.10.2011
• Subjects: ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USINGWAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FORPROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS; OPTICS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging apparatus, the size of which is prevented from being increased.SOLUTION: A front curtain 2 is biased by a biasing force so as to move from a third position on an optical path of an optical system to a fourth position at which the front curtain does not block a subject image being imaged by the optical system in a direction parallel to an imaging surface of an imaging element IMG. A rear curtain 3 is biased by a biasing force so as to move from the third position on the optical path of the optical system to the fourth position at which the rear curtain does not block the subject image being imaged by the optical system in the direction parallel to the imaging surface of the imaging element IMG. A compound-eye lens 1 is moved by one or both of a front curtain driving mechanism and a rear curtain driving mechanism between a first position on the optical path of the optical system and a second position at which the compound-eye lens 1 does not block the subject image being imaged by the optical system in the direction parallel to the imaging surface of the imaging element IMG.