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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8139934 | Close-up photograph device A photograph device is provided. The photograph device includes a body, a lens device mounted on the body, and an illuminating device mounted on the body and surrounding the lens device. ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8107808 | Combination dark field and bright field illuminator Embodiments are disclosed of an apparatus including a curved reflector having an interior and an open end; a light module positioned around a perimeter of the open end of the reflector, the light module including a first side having one or more interior light source... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8000594 | Diffuse reflective illuminator An apparatus including a curved light-reflecting surface including a pair of opposing curved edges and a pair of opposing longitudinal edges that extend between corresponding endpoints of the opposing curved edges; a pair of reflective surfaces, each reflective surf... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7822335 | Lens protector Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a method comprising covering a camera lens with a light pipe adapted to: substantially encircle at least a portion of a camera lens that is adapted to focus an image representing an object of photographic interest; extend fr... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7664388 | Device with a lens-rotation mechanism The present invention discloses a device with a lens-rotation mechanism, which comprises: a casing having a driving device, such as the casing of a camera, a mobile phone or a video camera; and a lens-rotation system installed to the casing and having at least two t... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7422353 | Light-emitting device for image taking and image-taking apparatus having same A light-emitting device is disclosed which enables efficient use of luminous flux and achieves a desired light emission characteristic. The light-emitting device has an optical member which has an emergence surface and a plurality of optical portions, each of the op... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7424216 | Camera flash diffuser for macro photography A light diffuser for a camera used in macro photography, the diffuser formed from a prism having a body that includes an opening to accommodate the camera lens such that the body is positioned adjacent the camera flash unit for receiving and redirecting light throug... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7373081 | Stroboscopic flash device for a digital camera A stroboscopic flash device for a digital camera having a plurality of stroboscopic flash units mounted on a ring-like holder provided removably attached to a lens barrel of the digital camera comprising a circumferential position adjustment mechanism to adjust a ci... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7352387 | Camera with positioning device used to capture magnified and demagnified images To provide a camera that is suited to shoot both a demagnified image and a magnified image. The camera includes a housing body 11 containing a CCD 15, and a lens barrel 12. An abutted member 20 having an objective lens 40 th... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7224501 | Light-emitting device and apparatus having the same A light-emitting device is disclosed which allows efficient irradiation of light from a plurality of light sources to achieve a predetermined light emission characteristic and has a small size. The light-emitting device has an optical member which includes a first r... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7136582 | Lighting apparatus The present invention aims at providing a lighting apparatus which is to be installed in a color camera, which is capable of providing the stable quantity of light from a light source such as an LED, and which is capable of stabilizing color tones of an image captur... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7127163 | Ring light guide A ring illuminator (20) has a light channeling section (22) with an input face (24) optically coupling the light channeling section (22) to a flash unit (16) of a camera (12) for obtaining flash illumination therefrom. A rin... | 10/24/2006 |
| 6430371 | Ring light guide device for camera Disclosed is a ring light guide device for a camera. The ring light guide device comprises a housing having an adaptor inserting hole which is formed therethrough at a side thereof in a manner such that the adaptor inserting hole has an axis which is coax... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6404984 | Lighted camera for dental examinations and method of using the same A self-contained dental camera uses white diodes to provide sufficient illumination for dental imaging without unduly depleting battery power. The illuminated dental work is imaged by a camera, preferably a CCD, and the resulting video signal is transmitt... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6400906 | Adaptive paint matching system and method An improved process of matching the color of a paint to the pre-existing color of a vehicle is provided. The process includes the steps of exposing a photo-reactive film to the surface of the vehicle whose paint color is to be matched. Once exposed, pigme... | 06/04/2002 |
| 5765047 | Lens shutter camera having a zoom viewfinder mechanism and an adjustable strobe light generating unit A lens camera having a viewfinder mechanism and an adjustable strobe light generating unit, wherein the zoom viewfinder mechanism has a disk cam to cause a lens group of a viewfinder optical system to move back and forth in an optical axis direction accor... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5337104 | Apparatus and method for redirecting camera flash light so as to avoid red-eye An apparatus for redirecting beams of light emanating from the flash of a camera so as to avoid the creation of "red-eye" in a photograph. The apparatus redirects the beams of lights so as to be distanced even further from the central axis of the camera l... | 08/09/1994 |
| 4666275 | Camera In the disclosed camera, an arrangement shifts the light detecting location of a light sensor facility from a first position offset from the camera's optical axis to a second light detecting location offset from the axis and angularly displaced from the f... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4423470 | Lens barrel suitable for flash photography In a lens barrel to which a flashlight-emitting device is mounted or may be mounted and which enables a very proximate object to be photographed, there is provided a light-intercepting member interposed in the path of the light emitted by the flashlight-e... | 12/27/1983 |
| 4392183 | Device in connection with cameras The invention relates to a device in connection with cameras for the support of flashlight units (14) on the socket (2) of the lens of the camera, so that the respective flashlight unit (14) will be supported in a laterally displaced manner relative to th... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4334746 | Photographic lens barrel A photographic lens barrel includes display means capable of displaying photographing magnifications, an optical system for imaging the display effected by the display means, and drive means for driving the display means so as to cause the magnification d... | 06/15/1982 |
| 4314749 | Lens mount barrel for photographing with flash lamp A lens mount barrel for flash photographing in which the relative positions of a flash source and a photographing lens are made variable and the photographic magnification or distance value can be set to preferred values within a general sequence of frequ... | 02/09/1982 |
| 4298262 | Aperture device of a lens capable of close proximity flash photography A lens includes a flash unit including a ring-shaped irradiating light source disposed around the lens barrel symmetrically about the optical axis, a diaphragm for varying the aperture diameter, an optical system having a first focusing mode in which focu... | 11/03/1981 |
| 3944341 | Wide-angle ophthalmoscope and fundus camera A wide-angle indirect ophthalmoscope contains a contact lens that fits over a cornea and is surrounded by two rings of optical fibers for illumination of the eye fundus. The two rings of fibers are oriented to maximize illumination of the fundus while red... | 03/16/1976 |
