Photographing device provided with dust removing mechanism
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1. A photographing device provided with a dust removing mechanism comprising:
- a photoelectric conversion element which converts an optical image into an electric signal;
an optical element arranged in a light path of the photoelectric conversion element;
a piezoelectric element provided at a peripheral portion of the optical element;
a drive circuit which supplies a drive signal to the piezoelectric element to drive the piezoelectric element; and
a control circuit which causes the piezoelectric element to vibrate via the drive circuit, to thereby cause flexural standing wave vibration in the optical element, the control circuit being configured to cause at least two flexural standing wave vibrations in the optical element at different nodes of vibration sequentially for predetermined time periods which are determined in accordance with characteristics of the optical element by changing control modes with time.
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Abstract
A camera according to this invention comprises a photographing optical system which forms an optical image of an object, a photoelectric conversion element which converts the optical image into an electric signal, an optical element arranged between the photographing optical system and the photoelectric conversion element, and vibration means which vibrates the optical element first at one of at least two frequencies and then at the other frequency, the frequencies being close to resonance frequencies.
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1. A photographing device provided with a dust removing mechanism comprising:
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a photoelectric conversion element which converts an optical image into an electric signal; an optical element arranged in a light path of the photoelectric conversion element; a piezoelectric element provided at a peripheral portion of the optical element; a drive circuit which supplies a drive signal to the piezoelectric element to drive the piezoelectric element; and a control circuit which causes the piezoelectric element to vibrate via the drive circuit, to thereby cause flexural standing wave vibration in the optical element, the control circuit being configured to cause at least two flexural standing wave vibrations in the optical element at different nodes of vibration sequentially for predetermined time periods which are determined in accordance with characteristics of the optical element by changing control modes with time. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A control method for a photographing device provided with a dust removing mechanism which removes dusts from an optical element arranged in a photographing light path, the method comprising:
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generating a first flexural standing wave vibration in the optical element for a first predetermined time period which is determined in accordance with characteristics of the optical element; and generating a second flexural standing wave vibration different from the first flexural standing wave vibration for a second predetermined time period which is determined in accordance with characteristics of the optical element, to remove dusts from a position corresponding to a node of the first flexural standing wave vibration. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12)
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