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...that two musicians were responsible for the invention of color print film? Fascinated by photography, Leopold Godowsky and Leopold Mannes worked together to produce an easy-to-use, practical color film. They worked full time as music teachers and gave concerts while experimenting during their off hours in Mannes' kitchen. Their success earned them full-time, well-paying jobs at Kodak and their efforts resulted in Kodachrome film, which was introduced in 1935.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8000596 | Camera body and imaging apparatus A camera body includes an imaging unit for generating image data from an optical signal incident via the interchangeable lens, a detector for detecting a light quantity of the optical signal, a controller for setting an aperture value of a diaphragm of the interchan... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7357315 | Customer interaction console and configurable console system A customer interaction console may include a counter module and a customer-oriented display. The counter module may include one or more raised portions with the customer-oriented display integrated in one of the raised portions. A configurable console system may inc... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7258272 | Identification system using face authentication and consumer transaction facility This invention provides an identification system using face authentication, in which a system configuration is simple at low cost, a processing speed of authentication is high, resistance to a customer is small, and an effect of preventing irregularities is high. Th... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7253575 | Industrial optical shutter A highly versatile optical shutter for industrial and scientific applications is disclosed. The has a aperture which defines a light path through the shutter, and a shutter vane or blade that is moved into and out of the light path using a precision, microprocessor ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7143051 | Method and system for quoting, issuing, and administering insurance policies including determining whether insurance policies are self bill or list bill Described is a method and apparatus for automatically quoting, processing, maintaining, claim processing, billing, and renewing life, health and related coverages for clients, especially group clients—without duplicative data entry. An integrated computer system c... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7128652 | System, method, and article of manufacture for gaming from an off-site location Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention allow a patron to play games from an off-site location via an online network. For example, a server may receive, from a first client terminal, a purchase request for at least one wag... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7071591 | Electromagnetic circuit and servo mechanism for articulated cameras An electromagnetic circuit that may be advantageously employed in an articulated camera, such as a CCTV camera, as a part of a servo mechanism to directly drive the camera and optical lens assembly, for example, in the pan and/or tilt axes. In one embodiment, the co... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7053514 | Image apparatus and drive motor A drive motor is proposed, which serves as a drive source for a movement mechanism constituting an iris for an optical path of an imaging system. The drive motor has a shaft serving as a center of rotation, a magnet, two-pole magnetized and rotated around the shaft,... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6992720 | Optical apparatus including image pick-up device and interchangeable lens with controller for controlling change of aperture This invention discloses an optical apparatus including an image pickup optical unit, a light quantity adjustment unit inserted in the optical axis of the image pickup optical unit, the light quantity adjustment unit changing the aperture diameter to change the ligh... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6989761 | Photo-timer module A photo-timer module, including a upper cover which has a hollow window; a lower cover which could affix to said upper cover; a control and power circuit which is placed into said upper cover, wherein a portion of said control and power circuit is revealed in said h... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6904235 | Quantity-of-light adjusting device A quantity-of-light adjusting device comprises a first quantity-of-light adjusting blade and a second quantity-of-light adjusting blade which move to adjust quantity of light, and a detecting member which detects that the first quality-of-light adjusting blade is at... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6879782 | Camera having operation member A camera is provided which includes a camera main body, a first cover covering one side of the camera main body, a second cover covering the other side of the camera main body, an appearance surface formed on an exterior of the camera main body and positioned betwee... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6871019 | Shutter abnormality detection apparatus for camera A shutter abnormality detection apparatus for a camera includes a shutter including leading and trailing curtains which are shutter curtains electrically controlled to run. A curtain run detection unit detects a run state of at least one of the leading and trailing ... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6800970 | Motor and optical apparatus using the same A motor includes a cylindrical magnet, first outer magnetic pole portions which are formed by gapping part of a cylinder from the distal end in the axial direction of the motor, and which oppose the outer circumferential surface of the magnet, second outer magnetic ... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6784938 | Electronic camera An electronic camera of the present invention includes a CCD, a diaphragm, an EEPROM, and a CPU. The CCD has a condenser micro-lens opposed to a light receptor. The diameter of the diaphragm is variable in relation to a plurality of f-numbers. In the EEPROM, data it... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6496651 | Method and apparatus for controlling exposure of camera An exposure control method and apparatus for a camera having a two-area divided brightness measurement system. A central light value is determined based on a central area brightness of a photographic scene, and a peripheral light value is determined based... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6347191 | Shutter control apparatus A shutter control apparatus is constructed for executing an exposure operation of a camera to photograph an object by controlling an actuator which drives a shutter blade to be opened and closed. In the shutter control apparatus, a battery supplies a powe... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6072958 | Camera having a shutter instrumentation device which detects the travel of the shutter A camera having a shutter instrumentation device for accurately measuring the actual shutter time. The camera includes a shutter which travels in a travel plane to open and close an aperture. A signal projection unit, positioned to one side of the travel ... | 06/06/2000 |
| 5999752 | Exposure controller for use in a camera An exposure controller for use in a photographing apparatus including a flash, includes a diaphragm having a changeable opening to adjust the amount of light reaching a photosensitive medium from a lens optical system, a diaphragm control unit for changin... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5966173 | Video camera, printer apparatus and method of controlling same, and apparatus and method for detecting print inhibit signal A reproduced still picture having a comparatively high picture quality is obtained irrespective of the luminance of the subject. In an interval photography mode, photography is performed one time in a plurality of fields at a relatively high shutter speed... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5881326 | Shutter apparatus and camera apparatus A shutter apparatus is provided wherein openings for defining a secondary aperture are formed in respective shutter blades, such that an amount of light transmitted through the secondary aperture is detected, and the drive force for driving the shutter bl... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5835800 | Camera and recording medium forwarding device suitable for use in a camera A camera has a calculator which calculates a photographing condition suitable for a selected exposure mode. A driving device of the camera performs a photographing operation in accordance with a nominal value of an exposure parameter calculated by the cal... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5825417 | Exposure control device of a video camera and method therefor An automatic exposure control device of a video camera for recording and tie-recording with proper exposure level including an iris mechanism having a two-fin type iris rotated by a ring portion of which the rotational speed is in proportion to an iris co... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5822629 | electronically controlled variable slit width focal plane shutter A focal plane shutter includes first and second shutter blades mounted for forming a slit that is scanned across an aperture. The shutter blades are shaped to form the slit between a trailing edge of the first blade and a leading edge of the second blade,... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5761552 | Camera having shutter instrumentation device for measuring shutter speed A camera which can detect the actual opening/closing state of the camera shutter based on a signal reflected towards the shutter by a signal projection unit and received by a signal receiving unit. The signal received by the signal receiving unit is based... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5758213 | Camera having a shutter measuring apparatus A shutter of a camera is provided with a shutter trip detecting device includes LEDs and PTRs. Measured are tripping timings of leading and trailing curtains for admitting and intercepting object light to an aperture. An exposure time on a film and a trip... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5701525 | Camera encoder assembly, system and method thereof A camera shutter and focus encoder assembly comprises an encoder mask fixed in a camera housing and having an arcuate window having alternating opaque and transmissive portions, and an encoder sheet mounted in the housing in abutting relationship with the... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5606496 | Personal assistant computer method A personal financial assistant computer system and method includes customer terminals at financial institution branch offices or other locations. Each customer terminal stores financial information for the particular financial services (such as insurance,... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5459512 | Image pickup apparatus with automatic and manual exposure control A video camera provided with a diaphragm operating speed control circuit for selecting different operating speeds for the diaphragm for exposure control, in automatic exposure control and in manual exposure control.... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5402202 | Shutter device for a camera An exposure control device for a camera includes a first opening state determination device for digitally determining an aperture opening state, and a second opening state determination device for determining with an analog device the aperture opening sta... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5264896 | Continuously variable electronically actuated shuttering system An electronically actuated shutter in which the location of the shutter blades are known to accurately control the aperture opening and exposure time. A Hall sensor is used to determine the position of the shutter blades.... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5245380 | Shutter and iris combined automatic exposure device An automatic exposure device having an exposure sensor and a microprocessor includes a plurality of shuris wings each having a window of a given shape to be movable in respect to each other a motor controlled by the microprocessor for driving the movement... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5237364 | Camera shutter A camera shutter system includes a matrix memory, an arrangement for determining the initial speed of a shutter sector, and a source of exposure values. The memory stores shutter-exposure pulse data elements, and is addressed by functions of the determine... | 08/17/1993 |
| 5220376 | Arrangement for compensating for variable speed of a camera shutter A camera shutter system has a motor driven sector for opening and closing a shutter opening. A photo-interruptor is positioned to intercept a light beam, to effect the outputting by the photo-interruptor of a signal pulse corresponding to the speed of the... | 06/15/1993 |
| 5181064 | Camera shutter A camera shutter system has a motor driven sector for opening and closing a shutter opening. A photo-interruptor is positioned to intercept a light beam, to effect the sequential generation of first and second photo-interruptor signal pulses, the first pu... | 01/19/1993 |
| 5181063 | Camera shutter A camera shutter system has a motor driven sector for opening and closing a shutter opening. A photo-interruptor is positioned to intercept a light beam, to effect the generation of a photo-interruptor signal. A timer has a counter that is set to a first ... | 01/19/1993 |
| 5172158 | Shutter for a single lens reflex camera A camera shutter of the type in which a shutter blade is initially displaced from an open position, in which a shutter opening is open, to a closed position, in which the shutter opening is closed, prior to the exposure-taking operation includes an actuat... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5079583 | Shutter apparatus which also serves as a diaphragm This invention relates to a shutter apparatus which also serves as a diaphragm. In this invention, there are provided two drive control modes for the shutter apparatus; the first mode for controlling a control voltage to be supplied to a shutter driving m... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5014082 | Method and apparatus for compensating for shutter speed variations An exposure control system for a photographic camera employing a scanning type shutter that includes a pair of cooperating shutter blade elements automatically compensates for exposure altering variations in shutter blade element speed that may occur from... | 05/07/1991 |
| 4989030 | Program shutter drive system A program shutter drive system has an ultrasonic motor for controlling an opening size of a shutter according to a programmed schedule of operation according to a brightness of a subject to be photographed. The ultrasonic motor drives the shutter to open ... | 01/29/1991 |
