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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8160438 | Imaging device An imaging device disclosed herein is a device for acquiring image data about a subject, comprising an image acquisition section, a housing, a flash device, and a flash controller. The image acquisition section is configured to continuously acquire a plurality of im... | 04/17/2012 |
| 7853139 | Optical device, illumination apparatus, and camera An optical device includes a housing having first to fourth sidewalls and top and bottom plates; and (M−1) partitions between the first and second sidewalls, and has M lens chambers, each filled with first and second liquids forming a liquid lens. A first lens cha... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7734168 | Lighting apparatus, electronic flash apparatus and camera A lighting apparatus comprising: a reflecting surface for reflecting light, formed on a circuit board; an LED light source for emitting illumination light with a light-emitting diode, mounted on a part of said refl... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7616881 | Zoom flash with liquid crystal lens A camera apparatus (10) has a zoom lens (12) having a zoom focus setting that is adjustable over a range of focus values and control circuitry for generating a variable voltage potential according to the zoom focus setting. A flash illumination apparat... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7421211 | Light source device A light source device has a continous wave (CW) light source for emitting first direct current (DC) light, a level converter for converting optical electric power of the first DC light into second DC light and outputting the second DC light, and a mixer for mixing a... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418201 | Flash apparatus, camera provided with flash apparatus, semiconductor laser device, and method of manufacturing the same In an embodiment of a flash apparatus, a semiconductor laser device is used as a flash-use light source. Laser light beams are approximately evenly scattered by a reflector plate whose reflection surface is formed of Ag coarse film, whereby illumination of a wide ra... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7386227 | Method and apparatus for photographic illumination A method and apparatus for photographic illumination comprising a light box having a top surface with spaced apart walls depending therefrom having an aperture in one wall thereby forming a chamber for the placement therein of an article or articles to be photograph... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382976 | Light source having a variable focal length A variable focal length light source is constructed using a tunable focus length lens which can be adjusted in synchronization to the focal length of a camera lens. In one embodiment, a deformable lens is used in conjunction with an LED light source to provide the t... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379117 | Flash module, camera, and method for illuminating an object during flash photography A flash module includes a point light source, a lens assembly, an actuator mechanism, and a control system. The lens assembly includes a lens that is positioned in front of the point light source. The actuator mechanism enables adjustment of the distance between the... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7298970 | Zoom flash with variable focus lens A camera apparatus (10) has a zoom lens (12) having a zoom focus setting that is adjustable over a range of focus values and control circuitry for generating a variable voltage potential according to the zoom focus setting. A flash illumination apparat... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7254323 | Illumination optical system, illumination device and image-taking apparatus An illumination optical system is disclosed, which leads a luminous flux forward effectively, which emitted backward from a light source. The illumination optical system comprises a light source, and a first optical member arranged on an opposite side of a light irr... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7224894 | Lighting apparatus, electronic flash apparatus and camera A lighting apparatus includes: a reflecting surface for reflecting light, formed on a circuit board;—an LED light source for emitting illumination light with a light-emitting diode, mounted on a part of the reflecting surface; and a reflector for reflecting ahead ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7178945 | Luminaire having a deformable reflector well An apparatus, system, and method for a luminaire with a light emitting device and a deformable reflector well is disclosed herein. ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7048409 | Luminaire A luminaire (1) or a system of a first luminaire (1) and a second luminaire (11) for lighting an object (V). Each luminaire has a housing (2; 12) provided with a plurality of tubular lamps (3, 3′, 3″; 13). The housing (2; 12) h... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050714 | Camera with movable lens barrel A camera includes a movable lens barrel, a flip-up flash emitting unit, a biasing spring to retract the flash emitting unit, and a slidable cover for a front of the movable lens barrel. A transmission gear transmits motion from a motor toward the movable lens barrel... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046926 | Light emitting semiconductor device and photographic illumination apparatus employing same Light emitting semiconductor device(s) of the present invention is/are provided with three LED elements by way of lead frame(s) on substrate(s) Reflector(s)—having parabolically curved surface(s) at inner wall(s) thereof is/are installed at periphery or peripherie... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7011459 | Camera with slidable cover In a camera, a movable lens barrel is movable between a collapsed position and photographing positions determined in front of the collapsed position. A slidable cover is movable, covers a front of the movable lens barrel when in a closed position, and uncovers the f... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6996339 | Three-dimensional photographing apparatus and three-dimensional photographing method, and stereo adapter A three-dimensional photographing apparatus includes a photographing unit configured to photograph an object from a plurality of viewpoints and a projecting unit configured to project a pattern on the object in photographing. The projecting unit including an optical... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6974236 | Illuminating apparatus This specification discloses an illuminating apparatus having a light source and an optical unit disposed forwardly on the object side of the light source, the optical unit being provided with an incidence surface on which light from the light source is incident, a ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6940663 | Zoom lens system A compact zoom lens system allowing excellent image quality regardless of an object distance, is disclosed. The disclosed zoom lens system comprises, in order from an object side to an image side, a first, a second, and a third lens units having a positive, a positi... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6909847 | Camera with built-in strobe The present invention provides a camera with a built-in strobe which can reduce its whole size, while having a pop-up mechanism that enables a strobe casing attached to a camera body to be shiftable. The camera is provided with a camera body (2), a support un... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6826364 | Zoom flash and flash photography system A zoom flash includes a light emitter, a zoom driver which moves the light emitter along an axis to vary an illumination angle, a detecting device which detects a zoom position of the light emitter, a calculation device which calculates a pre-flash emission level ac... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6807369 | Illumination device and photographing apparatus having the same An illumination device includes a flash discharge tube, an optical prism having a total-reflection surface for totally reflecting at least a part of incident light, light emitted from the flash discharge tube being made incident on the optical prism, and an optical ... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6782197 | Super wide angle zoom strobe apparatus and zoom compact camera having zoom strobe device A zoom strobe device suitable for a super wide angle, in which a distance between a reflector, which is provided on the base thereof with a rod-shaped tubular light emitting tube and a Fresnel lens, is varied to vary a flash angle of illumination, wherein the zoom s... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6771898 | Direction and collimation controllable flash An electronic flash is constructed with the ability to vary both collimation and direction allowing a user to direct the flash to a portion of the subject. Collimation and direction of the flash may be displayed in the viewfinder of the camera and may be independent... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6760546 | Viewfinder mounting structure for camera A viewfinder assembly mounting system includes a mounting hole formed at least in one of a camera body and a base barrel in a direction of an optical axis, a viewfinder assembly provided with a guide hole corresponding to the mounting hole of the base barrel; and a ... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6731870 | Flash device A flash device includes a flash tube; a reflector having a first reflector portion and a second reflector portion which are arranged symmetrically with respect to a plane including an axis of the flash tube, a space between the first reflector portion and the second... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6658209 | Camera with electronic flash device Sidewalls of a flash opening formed in a front cover of a camera are processed with the same surface treatment as that of the front cover. A condenser plate is so fitted into the flash opening from a backside of the front cover that a part of the condense... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6600877 | Zoom interlocking mechanism for camera A cam plate is disposed horizontally and movably to a horizontal direction inside a camera body. The cam plate includes a plate portion for moving variator lenses of a zoom finder device in cooperation with a zoom lens to vary a viewable field angle of a ... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6598986 | Zoom strobe device A zoom strobe device is provided with a light emitting unit, which includes a light source and a reflector and a light collecting lens that collects the light emitted by the light emitting unit. The light emitting unit and the light collecting lens are mo... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6573939 | Digital camera having synchronized movement of lens and flash A digital camera having a camera body and a lens assembly within an imaging unit which is rotatably connected to the camera body. Rotation of the imaging unit containing the lens assembly with respect to the position of the camera body causes the flash wi... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6519418 | Camera capable of varying luminous intensity distribution angle of flash device A camera includes a lens barrel having a cam part in which a plurality of magnification varying cam areas for varying magnification and a plurality of focusing cam areas for focusing are alternately formed in a continuous manner, a flash light emitting pa... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6498903 | Zoom finder device A driving gear is rotated in cooperation with zooming of a taking lens. The driving gear and a cam cylinder are attached to an axis that is supported by a finder frame. A projection of the driving gear is inserted into a cutout of the cam cylinder. Since ... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6497520 | Compact camera A film transport gear mechanism is mounted on an upper portion of an internal body frame of a camera, and held rotatably from the top by a gear holding plate (51). The gear holding plate is integrally formed with a finder frame (50) that holds a viewfinde... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6404988 | Camera A camera includes a flash light emitting part arranged to be movable between a stowed position and a usage position, a first lever member arranged to swing in such a way as to cause the flash light emitting part to move from the stowed position to the usa... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6400905 | Lighting angle variable lighting device A compact lighting device or a strobe device includes a discharge tube; a prism unit having an incident surface receiving a light from said discharge tube and an outgoing surface that ejects an incident light to a side of an object to be photographed; and... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6374051 | Camera having pop-up strobe There is disclosed a camera in which a power for a pop-up action of a built-in strobe is branched and taken out from & barrel-driving power transmitting path, the barrel is popped up in synchronization with an advancing action of the barrel from a retract... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6334028 | Photo printing system and camera for the same A pseudo zoom camera, which utilizes a film cartridge provided with an information storing device, comprises a taking lens optical system for projecting an object image onto a portion of photographic film, which portion has been pulled out of the film car... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6327434 | Camera A camera is provided, which can appropriately control the electronic flash irradiation area when the electronic flash device capable of setting its irradiation angle in a plurality of ways is used as an AF auxiliary light source, thus improving the use ef... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6314244 | Camera with retractable flash assembly A camera with a retractable electronic flash assembly is provided with a cam member having a first cam face for moving the flash assembly and a second cam face for moving a flashtube in the flash assembly. The cam member is moved within a first moving ran... | 11/06/2001 |
