IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE

• Main Author: TAKAGI AIJI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 31.10.2019
• 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; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTINGELECTRIC POWER; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; GENERATION; HOLOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY

To provide an electronic device which is configured to prohibit partial charging of a battery to prevent battery degradation and yet allows for charging the battery to full when charging control is resumed after being temporarily halted.SOLUTION: An image capturing device 100 is provided, comprising charging means for charging a battery using power received via USB connection, and determination means configured to determine, when staring to charge the battery, whether to use remaining battery power as a condition for starting charging or not on the basis of factors that caused charging to stop immediately before.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】 電池劣化抑制のために継ぎ足し充電をしない処理を行う電子機器において、充電制御を一時中断したのち再開した場合に、満充電になるまで充電できるようにする。【解決手段】 撮像装置（１００）は、ＵＳＢ接続部を介して受け取った電力で電池を充電する充電手段と、電池の充電を開始する際に、電池残量を充電開始の条件として使用するか否かを充電が直前に停止した要因に基づいて判定する判定手段とを有する。【選択図】 図１