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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7711257 | Image quality in cameras using flash The specification and drawings present a new method, apparatus and software product for using a flash light with, e.g., light-emitting diodes (LEDs) or other light sources of a camera of an electronic device for improving quality of images provided by the camera. Th... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7362965 | Wireless communication activation system and method A system and method for removable connection of an antenna element to a first flash synchronization connector of a camera body having wireless communication capability therein. An electrical event may be produced when the antenna element is connected to the first fl... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7272304 | Image sensing device and control method thereof An image sensing device allows to shoot an image using correct object distance information and light emitting amount when the main light emitting amount upon shooting an object image is calculated by making the pre-light emission after the auto-focusing process. Whe... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7133607 | Wireless communication activation system and method A system and method of alerting a wireless communication capability of a camera body to the presence of an external antenna element present in electrical communication with a pre-existing port of the camera body that was originally not designed for an external anten... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7039307 | Digital still camera, imaging method, and exposure decision method A digital still camera has a function to perform first and second exposures in a single imaging sequence. In the first exposure, imaging conditions are determined to obtain proper exposure amount of the background with available light. Then, the second exposure is c... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7016603 | Wireless communication module A microcontroller radio card (2) for insertion into a first device, e.g., a camera (10) to allow for remote operation of a second device, e.g., a flashpack (22), utilizing the existing controls of the first device. The card includes a base (3... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6693673 | Digital camera for adjusting charge accumulation time in response to object distance In a digital camera, when flash shooting is performed, a maximum distance at which a subject can be illuminated to appropriate brightness is calculated based on the guide number of a flash and the open aperture value of an aperture stop, and the distance ... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6614996 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus automatically determines the photographing mode and displays on a display a kind of the photographing mode with the image of the subject. The image forming apparatus comprises an image pickup part for forming an image of the sub... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6424805 | Exposure control device for use in camera An exposure control device for use in a camera includes a photosensor having at least two different types of spectral characteristics, a lightness calculating circuit that calculates lightness of each zone of the photosensor from the output of the zone of... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6421504 | Hybrid camera To record images by a film recording system and an electronic recording system with one light-emission of a flashing device, the flashing device is controlled according to set values of photo film recording conditions since the sensitivity of a silver hal... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6349172 | Lens drive device A lens drive device that is located inside a camera main body and can drive lenses that are interchangeably mounted to the camera main body, said lens drive device having a coupler that transmits the drive force to the lenses, a drive motor that rotates a... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6330399 | Photographic camera A photographic camera changeable between a normal photographic mode in which an almost entire area of an exposure frame of a photographic film is exposed with an intention of making a print from the exposure frame with a normal printing magnification and ... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6272289 | Camera A camera using an image blur prevention device including exposure time calculating apparatus which calculates a first exposure time from at least photometry data, sensitivity data of a recording medium and brightness of a photographic lens, a strobe light... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6160960 | Image pick-up apparatus An image pick-up apparatus includes: an image pick-up device for picking up an object image by converting the object image to an electric image signal; an image pick-up optical system having a variable aperture capable of changing an aperture value when a... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6154612 | Electronic flash control device A flash control device for a camera includes a light emission unit which emits light to illuminate a subject to be imaged by the camera, a preliminary light emission control unit which causes the light emission unit to emit light during a preliminary ligh... | 11/28/2000 |
| 5945843 | Semiconductor integrated circuit A level conversion circuit as a semiconductor integrated circuit has a first load resistance (R1), a second load resistance (R2), a first NMOS transistor (MN3) and a second NMOS transistor (MN4) connected to them (R1 and R2) in parallel, respectively, tha... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5915133 | Camera with a photographic mode automatic selecting apparatus A camera having a photographic mode automatic selecting apparatus. A photographic mode selecting device selects a photographic mode from a plurality of photographic modes. A photographic distance detecting device detects photographic distance data of a ph... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5623706 | Camera having auto focusing and auto exposure functions A camera having a focusing lens measures one of a distance to an object to be photographed and a defocus amount of an image of the object. The camera drives the focusing lens in accordance with the measured distance or defocus amount. The camera determine... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5343268 | Camera with strobe capable of adjusting light emitting amount A camera has a photomerry device to measure luminance of an object. The camera is provided with a strobe unit in which a strobe light is automatically emitted when the result of measurement by the photometry device is smaller than a predetermined luminanc... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5325147 | Exposure control apparatus of a camera An exposure control apparatus of a camera having a photometer, a film sensitivity detector, a calculator which calculates an exposure value, a diaphragm value and a shutter speed in accordance with a measurement by the photometer and the film sensitivity,... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5291237 | Flash synchronizing device A camera has a shutter which may also constitute a diaphragm. In a multi-flash mode the shutter selectively has a maximum aperture at an onset or at the end of the time base. The flash occurs in synchronism with a shutter waveform shaped by this aperture ... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5223884 | Camera system A camera includes an object distance detecting device. The detected object distance can be used to calculate magnification which, in turn, can be used to determine an aperture value. The object distance detecting device can be selectively operated dependi... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5005042 | Electric control camera An electronic control camera in which, when an electronic flash is used with the camera, the required exposure data is automatically set. In the electronic control camera to which the invention pertains, film sensitivity data and luminance data provided b... | 04/02/1991 |
| 4959676 | Control device for use in a camera having an objective lens The present invention can be applied to a control device wherein the probability of giving the proper exposure to the primary object photographed is high even when the regions to be found in range within the photographing distance are plural, thereby to b... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4307949 | Shutter control system having information circuit for introducing informations for flash photographing In a program shutter of the type in which the aperture opening gradually increases with the lapse of time, informations such as sensitivity of the film and the object distance are introduced by an electric circuit. The system has a switching circuit for exposu... | 12/29/1981 |
| 4280760 | Flash camera A flash camera having features that an aperture control is made in accordance with the factors whether a film sensitivity is high or low and besides whether a flash apparatus is used, that a constant-voltage circuit of small power consumption is employed ... | 07/28/1981 |
| 4174161 | Exposure control system In the exposure control system disclosed, a first photoelectric element responds to light from a scene to be photographed. A second photoelectric element is a spot sensor set to respond from a portion of the scene to be photographed. An exposure control c... | 11/13/1979 |
| 4063257 | Exposure control system In the exposure control system disclosed, a first photoelectric element responds to light from a scene to be photographed. A second photoelectric element is a spot sensor set to respond from a portion of the scene to be photographed. An exposure control c... | 12/13/1977 |
