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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7725021 | Lighting system for shooting A lighting system of the present invention includes a master flash device, a remote flash device, a support part, and a light guiding member. The master flash device emits light in accordance with a light emission control of a camera. The remote flash device has a l... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7433590 | Method of low intensity lighting for high speed image capture A system for synchronizing image capture and a light source has a first strobing light emitting diode (LED) array with a plurality of LEDs located to light an illumination area. The LED array has an on cycle during which the LED array is activated and an off cycle d... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7139472 | Camera system A camera executes a photographing operation with multiple flashes. The camera includes a photometering unit and a control unit. The control unit controls light emission at a first electronic flash unit which is either built into or externally mounted at the camera a... | 11/21/2006 |
| 6987931 | Flash control device, flash control system, master flash device, and remote flash device A flash control device has selectable two light emission modes. The first light emission mode causes a remote flash part to perform a light emission with a main light emission of a master flash part. The second light emission mode causes a remote flash part to perfo... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6950135 | Method and apparatus for gathering three dimensional data with a digital imaging system A digital image capture device including circuits capable of measuring the distance between the image capture device and an imaged object allows the capture of three-dimensional data of the surface of the object facing the image capture device. The distance data is ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6795647 | Flash control device and flash control system A flash control device for controlling a slave SB that emits a flash upon receiving an operational instruction via optical communication has a flash emitting part for emitting an optical signal used for the optical communication, and a power supply detecting part de... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6718135 | Flash photography system A flash photography system includes a camera body, a main flash device and at least one sub-flash device, wherein the main flash device emits at least one low flash emission serving as a main-flash emission command signal to transmit the main-flash emission command ... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6704500 | Control of light emission from flash lamp externally attached to digital camera For controlling emission of light from an outer flash lamp having a light receiving part and externally attached to a camera, which may be a digital camera and may be enclosed inside a watertight housing for underwater photography, having an inner lamp wh... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6442346 | Flash apparatus with one-time-use camera A one-time-use camera with a built-in flash, an external flash unit therefor and system in which the camera and external flash unit have mating mounting structures enabling the external flash unit to be mounted on the camera in manner that blocks direct f... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6366737 | External flash control system A flash control system remotely controls an external flash by a camera. In the camera, a stop value is calculated as a photographic exposure factor for the external flash, and a flash-light emission timing of the external flash is calculated. A built-in f... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6353711 | External flash control system A flash control system remotely controls a an external flash by a camera. In the camera, a first factor is calculated to determine an amount of a flash-light to be emitted from a built-in flash of the camera, and a second factor to determine an amount of ... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6351608 | One-time-use camera with external flash unit A one-time-use camera with a built-in flash unit and an external flash unit system in which the external flash unit is devoid of a charger circuit and battery power supply. The external flash unit is connected to the camera built-in flash unit's flash cap... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6351610 | External flash control system A flash control system remotely controls an external flash by a camera. In the camera, a guide number is calculated as an exposure factor for the external flash, and a flash-light emission timing of the external flash is calculated. A built-in flash of th... | 02/26/2002 |
| 5974273 | Method and apparatus for controlling a remote light source A method and apparatus for activating a remote light source in synchronization with an indication provided from a camera. A transducer is coupled to the external electrical connector of a conventional camera in order to convert the electrical signals that... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5870180 | Time measurement device and method useful in a laser range camera A time measurement device useful with laser range cameras and time-of-flight measuring methods includes a light transmitter responsive to start and stop signals for transmitting the light during a time interval to be measured, and a light receiver for rec... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5835794 | Electronic flash module The disclosure is concerned with an electronic flash module comprising a plurality of flash subunits to illuminate a photographed scene in flash photography. Each flash subunit comprises a flash-tube and associated charging and triggering circuits; a mode... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5794082 | Electronic flash device with slave emission function An electronic flash device with a slave emission function, includes a light-receiving circuit unit for starting slave emission in response to the steep leading edge of an optical signal, a light-emitting unit for irradiating illumination light for a photo... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5724620 | Wireless light-amplifying strobe system and strobe device usable with the system A wireless light amplifying strobe system appropriately regulates the commencement and cessation of each strobe's light emission to enable the radiation intensity of the light emissions to be accurately set. For example, a wireless light-amplifying system... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5678075 | Camera accessory for controlling an external strobe An easy to use camera accessory, when mounted onto a camera, will trigger an external strobe upon excitation of a built-in electronic flash while simultaneously blocking from the scene the light emitted by the built-in electronic flash. The camera accesso... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5597224 | Stroboscopic device for holding a trigger lead The present invention is a device which is capable of holding and fixing a trigger lead with firmness and reliability to a reflector without fixing by soldering or screws. This device forms an opening portion in the back surface of a housing for holding t... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5592257 | Electronic flash device with slave emission function An electronic flash device having a slave emission function and a standby mode, includes a setting member for setting the slave emission function, activation means activated in response to an input generated upon the function setting operation of the sett... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5585987 | Camera system including electronic flash device with slave emission function A camera system including an electronic flash device with a slave emission function, includes an electronic flash device including: a light-receiving unit for receiving a steep optical signal; a light-emitting unit for slave-emitting illumination light to... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5400112 | Photometric apparatus for a camera A photometric apparatus of a camera for carrying out a multi-segmented photometry by receiving object light reflected at a film or the shutter, include a plurality of photometric elements which are disposed at positions to respectively receive reflected l... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5392090 | Bounce flash apparatus usable with a photographic camera A radiation source, inclined relative to an optical axis of a camera, is used for directing light towards a reflecting surface and thence towards a subject to be photographed. A sensor detects light from the radiation source which is reflected from the su... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5283610 | Camera system having communication function between camera main body and flash device A camera system includes a camera main body, a transmitter for transmitting a signal to a flash device, a single communication path between the camera main body and the flash device, and a receiver for receiving a signal from the transmitter. The signal r... | 02/01/1994 |
| 4771301 | Apparatus for flash photography An apparatus for flash photography being of the type in which for one shot a number of different flash tubes are time-serially fired and the amount of flash light emitted from each flash tube is controlled in accordance with a respective arbitrarily chose... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4582410 | Tripod type slave unit A tripod type slave unit comprises a shoe type mount for carrying detachably a mounting leg for strobo device and the like on a portion of a tripod device detachable to an accessory mount of a camera, a control terminal connected to a switching terminal f... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4561751 | Flash device An electronic flash device of a camera comprises first flash means for emitting a flashlight, second flash means for emitting a flashlight, means for detecting that the first flash means has started to emit a flashlight and for producing a detection signa... | 12/31/1985 |
| 4368966 | Photographic system including remote controllable flash unit A photographic system including a flash unit wirelessly controlled. The system comprises a controller interlocked with the photographic camera and a flash unit operable in response to the controller to illuminate object. Start and stop of flashing of the ... | 01/18/1983 |
| 4354141 | Electric flash device for camera An electric flash device for camera of the present invention comprises, substantially, a first flash unit incorporated into a camera, and a second flash unit operated associating with the flash operation of the first flash unit, said second flash unit com... | 10/12/1982 |
| 4155029 | Auxiliary electronic flash apparatus An auxiliary electronic flash apparatus coactuable with a main electronic flash apparatus of the type having a first flash lamp for converting the energy stored on a first main capacitor into light for illuminating a subject, and a control circuit for tur... | 05/15/1979 |
| 3980923 | Photographic flash apparatus with multiple units Photographic flash apparatus having one flash unit which may be called the main or master or primary flash unit, and one or more additional flash units which may be called secondary or slave or dependent units. Eliminating connecting cables often used in ... | 09/14/1976 |
