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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7697060 | Rotary shutter assemblies for imaging photometers and methods for using such shutter assemblies Rotary shutter assemblies for imaging photometers and methods for using such shutters are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, for example, a method for capturing an image with an imaging photometer can include positioning a rotary shutter having an aperture at a fi... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7428381 | Electronic motion picture camera The invention relates to an electronic motion picture camera having an optical receiving system and a beam splitter which splits the receiving beam path into a taking beam path leading to an optoelectronic taking sensor and a viewfinder beam path leading to an optic... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7424219 | Viewfinder system for a digital camera and digital camera provided with such a system A viewfinder system for a digital camera comprises a main optical path for projecting an outside scene image onto a light sensitive area facility, which facility determines a user field, and an optical extraction path for through mirror-operation extracting a fracti... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7410310 | Blade driving apparatus for cameras A blade driving apparatus for cameras includes a base plate having an aperture for a photographing optical path; a cover plate having the aperture for the photographing optical path, provided with a blade chamber between the base plate and the cover plate; at least ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7357741 | Belt looping A high output light source, such as a stage lighting luminaire, produces light along a path. The belt which drives a driven device is kept away from that path by passing it around the opposite side of the pulley. ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7259792 | Optical system controller for video camera An optical system controller for a video camera having a lens barrel in which is arranged a movable optical system and on the outer surface of which is arranged an adjusting movable mechanism for the movable optical system. It permits the user to recognize easily an... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7236202 | Movement control system and method A movement control system useful for an apparatus comprising a movable member movable between two positions, a motor and a sensor device for producing an output value which changes during the movement of the movable member. The control system drives the motor in a f... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7149420 | Auto-focusing lens with progressive variable focal element An improved method and module for auto focusing utilizes a variable thickness focus element. A different thickness, and thus a different focus, is optically coupled to an image sensor by rotating the focus element. Movement along the optic axis is not required. This... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7088391 | Color video camera for film origination with color sensor and luminance sensor A technique for producing electronic video signals representative of color images of a scene includes use of a regular CCD for the color channel and a back-thinned CCD for a luminance channel; a technique for deriving blue and reconstructing full resolution R, G, B ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7068372 | MEMS interferometer-based reconfigurable optical add-and-drop multiplexor The interferometer comprises a beam splitter, a mirror and a phase modulator. The beam splitter splits a signal into a first portion and a second portion. The mirror reflects the first portion. The first portion includes an optical path length, which is fixed. The p... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7046202 | Folding directional antenna An antenna array includes a dielectric substrate comprising an integral center hub including a pivotal center section therein, and a pivotal wings extending radially from the integral center hub. An active antenna element is on the pivotal center section of the inte... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6933980 | Shutter for digital still camera A rotor is constituted by a two-pole permanent magnet, and enabled to rotate by a predetermined angle in a direction corresponding to the direction electric current supplied to a stator coil. Two shutter blades are moved by a driving pin which is integrally provided... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6924842 | Focusing state determining adapter for taking lens The focusing state determining adapter is detachably mounted between an interchangeable taking lens and a camera body in a camera system. The focusing state determining adapter includes a focus-imaging element and a beam splitter, which divides the subject light ent... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6778220 | Color video camera system and method with optical prefilter A technique for producing electronic video signals representative of color images of a scene, includes the following steps: providing a luminance sensor and a color sensor having a color filter thereover; providing a beamsplitter, and providing a motion picture film... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6734900 | Real time camera and lens control system for image depth of field manipulation A method is provided for real time control and manipulation of a moving imaging system lens's (prime, close-up, zoom, or anamorphic) depth of field. A computer control system is programed to perform a coordinated adjustment of a closed loop lens iris (aperture) and ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6639629 | Camera having photographing elements for photoelectrically converting optical image into image signals A camera is provided with a lens for focusing an optical image of a subject onto an image focusing surface; photographing elements, provided on the image focusing surface, for photoelectrically converting the optical image into image signals, the photogra... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6592480 | Belt looping A high output light source, such as a stage lighting luminaire, produces light along a path. The belt which drives a driven device is kept away from that path by passing it around the opposite side of the pulley.... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6570619 | Camera with solid-state image pickup elements and control device for controlling optical low-pass filter In a camera provided with a lens system to focus light from an object along an optical path through an aperture so as to form an image of the object on a focal plane; an aperture regulator for adjusting the opening area of the aperture so as to regulate a... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6421088 | Digital camera with an adjusting device for adjusting its lens and irises The present invention relates to a digital camera with an adjusting device coupled with the lens and holes of the digital camera. The digital camera comprises a housing with a front opening installed at its front end for receiving incident light, a sensor... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6307597 | Apparatus for sampling and displaying an auxiliary image with a main image Apparatus for displaying a combined image of an auxiliary image and a main image includes a source of a main image signal and a source of samples representing an auxiliary image signal. A quincunx subsampler is coupled to the auxiliary image sample source... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6229569 | Electronic camera An electronic camera comprises a casing in which a photographing section is accommodated; a rotating member mounted rotably to the casing; a plurality of light amount regulating members for regulating a light amount incident to the photographing section; ... | 05/08/2001 |
| 5914750 | Shutter including a capping element movable between light-blocking and non-light-blocking positions A shutter intended for use with a light-sensitive material. The shutter includes a light-blocking disk having a light-passing portion through which light can pass to reach a light-sensitive material. The disk is rotated to locate its light-passing portion... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5428387 | Method and apparatus for a real-time film-to-video conversion system A real-time telecine system for converting motion picture film to high definition video contains a control unit comprising a database which provides complete control over all parameters associated with the film to high definition video conversion. The tel... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5325205 | Video camera comprising at least a semiconductor image sensor and a rotating sector shutter In a video camera having at least a semiconductor image sensor and a rotary sector shutter arranged in the radiation path of the semiconductor image sensor, in which the light-dependent charge integration in the semiconductor image sensor is released by a... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5168364 | Image sensing apparatus An image sensing apparatus for picking up images having a solid-state image sensor provided with an antiblooming gate. The antiblooming gate removes unnecessary electric charge at a given frequency rate during a period of time at which an exposure shutter... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5081535 | Exposure control apparatus for electronic still camera having a through the lens light measuring system In an electronic still camera, an aperture plate having a number of different apertures and shading portions is provided. When picking up an image, one of the apertures that is selected depending on a light measurement value is inserted in an exposure lig... | 01/14/1992 |
| 4972269 | Electronic imaging apparatus with signal integration and selective image receiving modes An electronic imaging apparatus in which an exposure is controlled by using that output of an image pickup element which is obtained with exposure adjusting means in a corresponding position to the output of a photosensitive element solely used for light ... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4928180 | Camera with well defined shutter and suitable for recording television and cinematographic images A camera including a solid-state sensor (FT) of the charge transfer type, particularly a frame transfer sensor having a pick-up member (PP), a storage member (MP) and a parallel-in, series-out shift register member (SR), in which the number a of rows of r... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4901144 | Video endoscope aperture wheel drive system A video endoscope aperture wheel drive system effective to position a predetermined aperture formed in an aperture wheel in an optical path of an image generated by an imaging device viewing an object, while eliminating oscillation of the aperture wheel c... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4812911 | Adapter with built-in shutter An adapter with built-in shutter arranged to be attached between a master lens and a camera body, includes a first lens group having a negative power and disposed at a position on the master lens side of an image forming plane of the master lens, a second... | 03/14/1989 |
| 4797734 | Pickup apparatus A high-speed pickup apparatus in which a rotary shutter is disposed on the intermediate image plane between a photo-taking lens and a relay lens.... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4758905 | Image pickup apparatus with a rotary shutter An image pickup apparatus using an image sensor is provided with a rotary shutter that controls the amount of time the image-forming light strikes the image sensor. A synchronism detector is provided to detect the phase difference between the rotation of ... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4743108 | Dynamic shutter mechanism A dynamic shutter mechanism for use with a still or motion video camera which is operable at variable shutter speeds to capture high speed events. The shutter mechanism includes a pair of apertured shutter discs which are independently driven by separate ... | 05/10/1988 |
| 4729018 | Endoscope apparatus with rotating shutter An endoscope apparatus includes a solid-state image pickup device, a video processor, a light source, a rotating shutter, a light transmission unit, and a display. The solid-state image pickup device for picking up an image of a body cavity is mounted at ... | 03/01/1988 |
| 4695891 | Variable speed video camera A compact video camera which is operable at continuously variable shutter speeds to capture high speed events which may be recorded and played back in slow motion for scene analysis. The video camera includes an image sensor, a zoom lens, and a rotating s... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4695887 | Variable speed video camera A compact video camera which is operable at continuously variable shutter speeds to capture high speed events which may be recorded and played back in slow motion for scene analysis. The video camera includes an image sensor, a zoom lens, and a rotating s... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4667226 | High definition television camera system and method with optical switching An apparatus and method for generating video signals using an improved camera system is disclosed. The camera system includes first and second video imaging devices which are scanned at different scan rates. An optical switching system directs light from ... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4646156 | High-speed video camera and method of high-speed imaging using a beam splitter In a high-speed video camera, a light beam from a main lens (3) is split into a plurality of light beams having identical optical information, and then these plurality of light beams are intermittently transmitted to different positions of an imaging devi... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4643578 | Arrangement for scanned 3-D measurement Three-dimensional surface measurements are made in the presence of interfering background light such as weld arc glare by scanning the surface with a narrow light beam and synchronously masking the image of the illuminated surface to block all light withi... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4626094 | Shutter time switching device for rotary shutter The disclosed shutter time switching device for a rotary shutter is provided with a stepping motor for controlling the opening angle of the rotary shutter. The device includes a driving mechanism for driving the stepping motor in a two-phase driving mode ... | 12/02/1986 |
