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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7974529 | Digital camera A digital camera is provided with a special successive shooting mode wherein an imaging device makes a series of successive shots upon each shutter release operation, including at least a non-flash shot and at least a flash shot. When a shutter button is pressed hal... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7813637 | Digital camera A digital camera is provided with a special successive shooting mode wherein an imaging device makes a series of successive shots upon each shutter release operation, including at least a non-flash shot and at least a flash shot. When a shutter button is pressed hal... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7664387 | Exposure time selection in a transmission apparatus with a camera A communications apparatus is shown having an imaging device for capturing an image, and a flash for lighting an image to be captured. Also shown is the use of the apparatus. Software for matching a flash performance to other functions of a device is also shown. A r... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7660520 | Camera system with current and discharge controlled illumination The present invention relates to a camera system that illuminates a subject being photographed and its object is to provide the camera system capable of photographing at a shutter speed exceeding a synchronous speed or continuous shooting. An electronic camera accor... | 02/09/2010 |
| 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 |
| 7218353 | Electronic camera that selectively performs different exposure calculation routines If an electronic camera is set in an image-capturing sensitivity automatic control mode, a program autoexposure calculation is executed based upon the subject brightness and the image-capturing sensitivity setting to determine a control aperture value and a control ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7218759 | Face detection in digital images A method and apparatus for the detection of faces in a digital image captured under a variety of lighting conditions are provided. Rather than subjecting an entire image to computationally intensive face detection analysis, the image is subjected to computationally ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7212243 | Image pickup device with automatic and manual exposure control modes for image signal and image display to display an image based on an image signal obtained in automatic or manual exposure control An image pickup device designed to always ensure improved facility with which an object is recognized even in a manual exposure control mode. The image pickup device includes an exposure control device capable of being selectively set in one of an automatic mode and... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7180545 | System and method for redeye strobe mode control A method and apparatus for controlling a flash that automatically selects between normal flash mode and redeye reduction flash mode is disclosed. The apparatus measures the light in the scene, and based on this measurement, chooses between the redeye reduction flash... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7145602 | Exposure control method for digital camera An apparatus and method for controlling exposure of a digital camera with high precision by setting a proper exposure amount by emitting auxiliary light during auto-focusing, detecting the luminance level of an object, and carrying out an exposure controlling operat... | 12/05/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6950120 | Camera layout for acquiring images used in panoramic synthesis An image recording apparatus for recording images sensed by at least two cameras attached to a vehicle, has a first camera which is arranged to have an image sensing direction agreeing with a first direction of a vehicle, a second camera which is arranged at a posit... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6744471 | Electronic camera that synthesizes two images taken under different exposures Disclosed herein is an electronic camera for generating an image having a wide dynamic range by synthesizing two image pickup signals of different exposure amount generated by using an electronic shutter function and means for shutting off light, shading of image pi... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6741044 | Lamp lighting controlling apparatus and light emitting apparatus When a lamp is turned on and a wafer is placed on a light exposure surface, a controlling unit opens a shutter plate so that light is emitted on the light exposure surface and an illuminometer receives the light. An accumulated light amount measuring unit converts i... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6427051 | Controller for controlling a camera having a built-in flash A camera includes a built-in flash and a controller for controlling the camera. The controller includes different photographic modes; an auto-exposure-mode selecting mode in which an appropriate photographic mode is automatically selected from the differe... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6359651 | Electronic camera using flash for exposure control A camera CPU internally provided at a digital still camera determines an exposure time based upon an image signal input from a CCD via a control circuit. The camera CPU also implements preliminary photographing which is accompanied by light emission by an... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6356714 | Electronic flash light-emission controlling method and apparatus and camera A cartridge information reading part determines whether a film loaded in a camera is a negative film or a positive film. If the film is the negative film whose latitude is large, then an electronic flash is used even when an appropriate exposure can be ob... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6343189 | Controller for controlling a built-in flash of a camera A camera includes a retractable built-in flash unit which is movable between a retracted position and a discharge position, and a controller which controls the built-in flash and provides an auto flash mode in which the controller allows the built-in flas... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6301442 | Optical instrument and image photographic method A lens-fitted photo film unit for photographing an object includes a flash charger button as mode selector, which designates a selected one of a flashless mode and a flashing mode. An exposure aperture forms a color image by object light from the object. ... | 10/09/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6137958 | Camera In a camera having a camera body part and a lens barrel part, an optical filter arranged to be rotatable around an axis located inside a lens optical path derived from the lens barrel part (for example, around an axis substantially parallel with an optica... | 10/24/2000 |
| 5809350 | Flash device having flat emission mode There is provided a flash device to which a construction for starting a flash emission without depending on the turning-on of an X-sync contact is added without increasing the number of interfaces between a camera body and the flash device. In the flash d... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5692223 | Remotely-controlled flash photographing system A flash photographing system includes a first firing device operable to fire a first flash light effective for photography of the camera device; a second firing device operable to fire a second flash light ineffective for photography of the camera device,... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5617175 | Camera having electronic flash units A camera having a structure in which a colorimetric value is not influenced by the color tone of a main object to be photographed. The camera, in which a film having a data recording section can be loaded, comprises three light receiving portions differin... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5600389 | Camera which sets shutter speed and lights display in accordance with flash device A camera information setting device temporarily sets a shutter speed during flash photography. The original camera shutter speed is automatically recovered without further operation from the photographer. A first display is disposed within the viewfinder ... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5579081 | Camera with built-in electronic flash An ever-flash exposure control system for a built-in flash camera regulates a triggering time T1 from the commencement of gradual opening of a program shutter at which an electronic flash is triggered and a flash duration time T2 for which the electronic ... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5576798 | Automatic flash amount control apparatus of camera An automatic flash amount control apparatus of camera, which can avoid over-exposure of a subject to be controlled in flash amount even if the subject to be illuminated occupies only a small portion of photo-taking screen, executes photo-metering of a fie... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5521664 | Camera with flash-prevention mode override A camera having an automatic flash prevention mode includes an override mechanism allowing a photographer to override the automatic flash prevention mode. The number of flashes and timing of the flashes can be set arbitrarily by the photographer while the... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5440369 | Compact camera with automatic focal length dependent exposure adjustments A compact camera has a variable focal length photographing optical system, a multisegment photometric system that is separate from the photographing optical system, each segment outputting a brightness level, and a controller that determines an exposure v... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5406348 | Camera control/autofocusing system A camera system incorporates an autofocus system of simple and inexpensive design that provides improved photospace coverage. The autofocus system utilizes both a measurement of the intensity level of ambient light and a determination of whether the ambie... | 04/11/1995 |
| 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 |
| 5333113 | Method and apparatus for detecting, recording and using scene information in a photographic system A method of operating a photographic camera to record data in correspondence with a picture frame includes activating a flash to provide illumination for exposing the picture frame onto a photographic film. Sensing is performed to determine if light gener... | 07/26/1994 |
| 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 |
| 5289219 | Camera provided with red-eye phenomenon preventing feature A camera provided with a red-eye phenomenon preventing feature, includes a control device for controlling the red-eye phenomenon preventing feature in response to at least one of a photometry result and a predetermined speed of a shutter release button op... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5218397 | Automatic exposure control apparatus for a camera An automatic exposure control apparatus for a camera for metering a reflected light from a film surface in a flash photographing mode and stopping a light emission in accordance with the comparison comprises a flashing device for providing a preliminary l... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5198855 | Exposure compensation device of camera An exposure compensation device of a camera used jointly with an electronic flash has a plurality of exposure compensation modes and electronic flash modes preset to each of the exposure compensation modes. In each exposure compensation mode, a compensati... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5159384 | Camera exposure control system selectively operative in exposure control mode based on multi-spot light measurement or in exposure control mode based on flash light A camera exposure control system based on multi-spot light measurement is designed to determine the exposure value from measured values provided by measuring the brightness of arbitrary portions of the photographic view field a plurality of number of time... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5130737 | Flash bracket photographing apparatus for a camera A bracket photographing apparatus for a camera system using a flash light unit. In a flash bracket photographing, a series of photographs (frames) are taken with the film exposure differing between the frames, where the exposure difference is caused by a ... | 07/14/1992 |
| 5124739 | Real time pseudofocus exposure control system A fixed focus lens, scanning aperture, electronic flash camera is provided with an exposure control system of substantially reduced complexity for improving the clarity of sharpness of an image of subjects located closer to the camera than the near distan... | 06/23/1992 |
