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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7359130 | Lens mount and alignment method An improved lens mount and related alignment methods are provided. In one example, a lens mount includes a ring member and a base member connected with the ring member. The base member has a bottom surface. First and second coplanar mounting pads are provided on the... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7330649 | Universal security camera A security camera has an adjustable turret that holds a lens assembly which can be aimed in various directions. The camera also has a compact housing which, in combination with the adjustable directionality of the turret, enables universal mounting to various struct... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330646 | Camera film prewinding using D-shaped film perforations A film camera has a body enclosing a light-tight film space. A film unit disposed in the film space, includes a filmstrip having a longitudinally extending row of uniform perforations. The perforations each have at least one concavely-curved edge extending in a dire... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7248376 | Printer module with a pen-like configuration A printer module includes a body that defines a print media feed path and a feed opening to permit print media to be positioned in the print media feed path. A pagewidth printing mechanism is positioned in the body to carry out a printing operation on the print medi... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7215364 | Digital imaging system using overlapping images to formulate a seamless composite image and implemented using either a digital imaging sensor array An imaging system for obtaining a wide field of view comprises a plurality of imaging devices each having a defined field of view and each of the imaging devices having a mechanism for capturing an image at a selected time instant. The imaging devices are positioned... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7092627 | Shooting system and silver-salt camera A shooting system of the present invention comprises a silver-salt camera unit shooting on a silver-salt photosensitized material, an electronic image pickup unit which is detachably combined with the silver-salt camera unit and in which a solid image pickup element... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7034884 | Image capturing apparatus with a lens barrier that is a portion of a body of the image capturing apparatus An image capturing apparatus, such as a digital camera, having a movable lens barrier or cover which can easily be opened and closed to operate the image capturing apparatus in various predetermined modes depending on the position of the lens barrier. In one preferr... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6968058 | Digital evidential camera system for generating alteration detection data using built-in encryption key A digital evidential camera system is for detecting the alteration of image data obtained by photographing an object. The system comprises the camera and an alteration detection unit. The camera includes an image pickup unit for picking up an image of the object and... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6908307 | Dental camera utilizing multiple lenses A dental camera is provided having multiple lenses. The dental camera has at least a first lens for use in an intra-oral mode, and at least a second lens for use in an extra-oral mode. The dental camera is switchable between the intra-oral mode and the extra-oral mo... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6890690 | Photographic article A photographic article. According to one embodiment, the photographic article comprises: a first image area comprising a photographic film negative of an image; and a second image area, different than the first image area, comprising a positive image of the image. | 05/10/2005 |
| 6801715 | Reusable camera for use with pre-exposed and conventional film A photographic film strip in the form of a length of photographic film has a pre-exposed area and an unexposed area. The pre-exposed area is continuous and extends along one edge of the strip between ends of the strip. The unexposed area is also continuous and has a... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6456799 | Combination camera The present invention is an imaging apparatus which includes a housing that encloses, in a common cavity thereof, an arrangement comprising a pair of independent cameras constructed in combination with each other, said pair of cameras being a digital came... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6112033 | Multiple-lens image pickup apparatus for viewing in stereoscopic panoramic, and ordinary photographing modes A multiple lens image pickup apparatus includes a plurality of image pickup systems, a control system, and an optical viewfinder. Each image pickup system is arranged to allow an angle an optical path makes through the system to be changed. The control sy... | 08/29/2000 |
| 5995759 | Stereoscopic image apparatus An eye imagining apparatus where, in the case of a stereoscopic image, a beam from a left stop of a stereoscope stop and a beam from a right stop of the stereoscopic stop form an eye fundus image on a surface of a cylindrical lens array. These beams also ... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5915135 | Five-lens camera with moveable internal mask for single or quadruple images A camera for use with film preferably of the instantaneous development type which includes a central lens and four peripheral lenses spaced at the vertexes of an imaginary quadrilateral dividing a front of the camera. An external operating mechanism is pr... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5852753 | Dual-lens camera with shutters for taking dual or single images A dual-lens camera which can be used to take single-frame images for 2D photography or dual-frame images for 3D photography. The camera has two taking lenses and two independently operable shutters. The unique feature of this dual-lens camera is that the ... | 12/22/1998 |
| 5708857 | Multi-direction camera in combination with a car A multi-direction camera comprising a mirror 3 having a plurality of reflecting surfaces 31 and 32 disposed in front of a lens 4. The lens 4 receives light reflected from the mirror 3 from a plurality of directions and forms an image by the image sensor 7... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5678088 | Method for advancing photographic film for interspersing mono and dual images In accordance with the present invention, a method for advancing photographic film is provided for use by a photographic system which uses film cartridges, such as cameras, film development equipment or equipment which provides for the viewing and/or prin... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5666579 | Camera back which allows two discrete images to be sequentially exposed onto single film unit A camera back for sequentially exposing two spatially separate images on regular or self-developing film adapted for a variety of single lens cameras. The camera back includes an adapter plate disposed between the camera and a film back wherein a dark sli... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5581314 | Camera with stereoscopic optical system A stereoscopic camera is provided with a mechanism to move reflective members into and out of an optical path such that the camera may take stereoscopic photographs in one position of the moving mechanism. The camera may also take normal full-frame photog... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5543274 | Photographic film A photographic film which makes it easy to recognize the positions for cutting the photographic film into frames and which can be used for both stereoscopic cameras and general cameras. The photographic film 1 is perforated as designated at 2 along near b... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5479229 | Dual-mode camera for three-dimensional and two-dimensional photography A camera for stereoscopic photography functionable both in a stereoscopic mode and in a normal mode comprises a camera body, a plurality of lenses provided on the front face of the camera body and arranged horizontally in a line, a plurality of film chamb... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5294951 | Dual-mode 3-D and 2-D camera with movable baffles The present invention relates to a multi-lens camera that can be used for both 3-D photography and 2-D photography. When the camera is used in the 3-D mode, a series of slightly different two-dimensional images of the scene are exposed by all the taking l... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5111223 | Camera system A camera system for taking i.d. (identification) pictures includes a camera body having a pair of taking lenses, to which one of a plurality of film holders of different film formats is removably attachable from the rear side of the camera body, depending... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5001504 | Frame shooting device for camera for shooting a plurality of frames simultaneously A frame shooting device for a camera for shooting a plurality of frames simultaneously wherein an even number of lenses are arranged in parallel, and four frames are shot simultaneously, whereby not only the simultaneous shooting of all of the frames but ... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4851867 | Photographing number change-over device for two lens camera A photographing number change-over device for a two lens camera having two photographing lenses equipped with shutters, respectively, is capable of photographing two pictures on a film. The photographing number change-over device comprises a driving membe... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4751537 | Photographing number change-over device for four lens camera A photographing number change-over device is effectively used for a four lens camera capable of simultaneously photographing four pictures on a film. The device comprises a first sector for shutting off two photographing lenses symmetrically opposed with ... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4383746 | Multiexposable motor-drive-film-winding camera In a motor-drive film-winding camera of the type capable of multiexposure, having separate motors for cocking the shutter (or the mirror in a single lens reflex camera), and for film winding, a changeover is provided to switch from normal operation with e... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4140381 | Multiple format photograhic camera A photographic camera is disclosed having a single movable lens which may be utilized to optionally produce, on a given-sized film element, either one large format picture or a plurality of separately exposed smaller format pictures.... | 02/20/1979 |
| 4121886 | Quiet motion picture camera A motion picture camera employs a mounting plate supported within the camera housing by means of sound-insulating connectors. All of the sounds-generating moving parts are supported solely on the mounting plate and all are out of contact with the camera h... | 10/24/1978 |
