Camera device and method and program for starting the camera device

• US 20090115871A1
• Filed: 03/20/2008
• Published: 05/07/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: Hayashi, Tetsuya, Maeno, Yasushi, Yoshizawa, Kenji, Nakamura, Koki, Sumi, Hidetoshi, Hosoda, Jun
• Application Number:
  US12/077,718
• Publication Number:
  US 20090115871A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/231.200
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4411 Configuring for operating with peripheral devices; Loading of device drivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2112 using still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras

Abstract

A camera device comprises an optical system driven to a predetermined position upon initialization when a photographing mode has been set, a memory including an area for storing lens information inherent to the optical system, an area for storing a file management program, and a management area which is managed by using the file management program, the area for storing the lens information differing from the management area, and a controller which controls the initialization of the optical system based on the lens information stored in the memory.

Claims

1. A camera device comprising:

an optical system which, upon initialization, is driven to a predetermined position when the camera device is started up;

a memory including an area for storing lens information inherent to the optical system, an area for storing a file management program, and a management area which is managed by using the file management program, the area for storing the lens information differing from the management area; and

a controller which, when the camera device is started up, starts driving the optical system to the predetermined position by an initialization process based on the lens information stored in the memory and thereafter starts a predetermined control based on the file management program stored in the memory without waiting the optical system to arrive the predetermined position.

2. A camera device according to claim 1, wherein the optical system comprises a zoom lens.

3. A camera device according to claim 2, wherein the optical system comprises a focus lens.

4. A camera device according to claim 2, wherein, the optical system comprises a focus lens.

5. A camera device according to claim 1,

when the camera device is started up in a state in which a recording mode has been set, the controller starts driving the optical system to the predetermined position by the initialization process based on the lens information and thereafter starts the predetermined control based on the file management program without waiting the optical system to arrive the predetermined position, and

when the camera device is started up in a state in which a playback mode has been set, the controller starts the predetermined control based on the file management program without starting driving the optical system to the predetermined position by the initialization process based on the lens information.

6. A method for controlling a camera device, wherein the camera device comprises:

(i) an optical system which, upon initialization, is driven to a predetermined position when the camera device is started up, and (ii) a memory including an area for storing lens information inherent to the optical system, an area for storing a file management program, and a management area which is managed by using the file management program, the method comprising;

storing the lens information in the area for storing lens information in the memory, the area for storing lens information being different from the management area; and

when the camera device is started up, starting driving the optical system to the predetermined position by an initialization process based on the lens information stored in the memory and thereafter starting a predetermined control based on the file management program stored in the memory without waiting the optical system to arrive the predetermined position.