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A self defense weapon formed as a memo pad and which is easily held by a person's fingers, therefore making it possible to provide protection from a mugger and also to quickly and easily write a record or a message without failure of missing or forgetting significant information under a stressful situation.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7499640 | Image-recording apparatus An image-recording apparatus includes a display unit for displaying an image photographed by an sensing device, an illuminating unit for emitting light by discharging charges charged in a capacitor on photographing, a power source unit in which any one of plural kin... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7347581 | Multi-beam flashlight A flashlight is provided. The flashlight includes a housing having a first end and a second end. A first light source is disposed at the first end of the housing. A second light source is disposed at the second end of the housing. A battery is disposed in the housin... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7139474 | Mobile equipment and mobile phone with shooting function Mobile equipment includes LEDs supplied with a current to emit red light, green light and blue light, FETs and a booster circuit for controlling the current supplied. The current supplied is controlled to supply all of the LED with a current of a low level to illumi... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7119502 | Flashing discharge tube-use power supply and control method therefor A voltage for light emission is applied to the positive electrode 11 and negative electrode 13 of a flash discharge tube 3 (xenon flash lamp) by a charge and discharge capacitor 17. When the voltage of the charge and discharge capacitor | 10/10/2006 |
| 7100602 | Self-defense flashlight equipped with an aerosol dispenser A flashlight for dispensing a substance from an aerosol canister includes an elongated housing having a front end, a rear end, and a central longitudinal axis, the aerosol canister being slidably received within the housing. The flashlight also includes at least one... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7085489 | Mobile device and mobile telephone device having imaging function Mobile equipment includes LEDs supplied with a current to emit red light, green light and blue light, FETs and a booster circuit for controlling the current supplied. The current supplied is controlled to supply all of the LED with a current of a low level to illumi... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7076162 | Mobile equipment and mobile phone with shooting function Mobile equipment includes LEDs supplied with a current to emit red light, green light and blue light, FETs and a booster circuit for controlling the current supplied. The current supplied is controlled to supply all of the LED with a current of a low level to illumi... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6957017 | Capacitor strobe charging device utilizing current detection to determine malfunction, and strobe and camera using same A strobe device including a light-emitting tube, a main capacitor which accumulates energy and which supplies the energy to the light-emitting tube, a transformer circuit which includes primary and secondary coils in order to accumulate the energy of a power supply ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6714727 | Camera capable of having alternatively positioned mode indicator A camera is capable of being assembled with an alternately positioned mode indicator. The camera includes the following in order to achieve this objective. A support adapted to hold a mode indicator at any one of at least two different locations in order to enable t... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6516144 | Lens-fitted photo film unit and flash device In a film unit, a charge operation member is held on a fron side of a guide member to be slidable between an ON position to turn on a flash charge switch of a built-in flash device and an OFF position to turn off the flash charge switch. The guide member ... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6466744 | Strobe circuit, lens-fitted film unit, camera and printed-circuit board for strobe There is described a strobe device to which another electronic circuit or electronic element is added, and a lens-fitted film unit and a camera, which incorporates the strobe device. The strobe device includes: a strobe light-emitting tube to emit a strob... | 10/15/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6404987 | Flash system In a flash system, information on a light emission mode, etc., is communicated to a slave flash device through pulse light emitted from a master flash device, and, after completion of communication of the information, the master flash device makes light e... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6351606 | Electronic camera, method for detecting obstruction to electronic flash and method for correcting exposure level A signal level determining block determines whether a solid-state imaging device is under-exposed in accordance with image data captured at an electronic flash shooting. The electronic flash output determining circuit determines whether an output of an el... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6320573 | Driving a memory display in a camera A camera having an electronic flash unit which provides a source of high voltage and having a display for displaying an image, which includes the display including material which is effective in a first condition in response to a selectively applied high ... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6029011 | Control device for flash device used for camera A control device for a flash device used for a camera, or a camera adapted to use a flash device, includes an object luminance detecting sensor part for making preliminary light emission before exposure and measuring object luminance obtained during the p... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5890022 | Camera with flash illumination light source for phosphorescent exposure counter A camera comprises an exposure counter for indicating the number of frames of a film load that have been exposed or remain to be exposed, and a flash illumination light source for illuminating a subject being photographed. The exposure counter has a phosp... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5878285 | Camera with multiple lenses in planar array parallel to fixed film strip A camera device having photosensitive film, a frame connected to the film for holding the film fixed in a first plane, and a plurality of lenses of several predetermined focusing powers mounted to the frame and disposed in a second plane spaced from and p... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5878290 | Camera provided with red-eye phenomenon preventing feature A camera with a red-eye preventing feature includes an operation unit for causing the red-eye phenomenon preventing feature to function, a timer for measuring a predetermined period when the red-eye phenomenon preventing feature functions, an indicating d... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5815750 | Camera having a finger detecting device A camera has a finger detecting device for indirectly detecting that a finger rests on an electronic flash and so forth due to unsuitable holding of the camera. The finger detecting device comprises a conductive member and an auxiliary electrode. The cond... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5747225 | Light sensitive device The invention relates to a light sensing device comprising a spironaphthoxazine dispersed in a layer of gelatin on a base material.... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5734929 | Multiple as a photographic film and associated camera device Photographic film comprises a flexible substrate sheet divided on one side into a multiplicity of different picture areas provided with respective layers of photosensitive chemical material having a plurality of different photosensitivities. Thus, each sh... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5697003 | Camera with combination multi-lamp flash source and exposure counter A camera comprising a light sensitive film on which a certain number of exposures can be made, and a multi-lamp flash source having a plurality of one-time-use flash lamps equal in number to the total number of exposures to be made on the film, is charact... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5682561 | Control device for preventing red-eye effect on camera A camera capable of operating in a red-eye prevention mode. The camera has an electronic flash device which is activated by a drive circuit in synchronization with the exposure. The electronic flash device also serve as a pre-light-emission device capable... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5619297 | Camera A camera has a camera body being made of an electro-conductive material and a plurality of windows for light-projection or a light intake thereon. At least one of covering members for the windows includes an exposed part being exposed toward an outside of... | 04/08/1997 |
| 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 |
| 5589934 | Light measuring apparatus capable of measuring ambient light and flash light A light measuring apparatus capable of measuring ambient light, flash light from a flash source directly connected to the light measuring apparatus and flash light from a flash source that is remote. A photoelectric sensor can convert the light into elect... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5581315 | Camera with built-in photoflash unit A camera with a built-in photoflash unit comprises a camera body; a photoflash unit; a detection electrode for detecting a capacitance added thereto and detecting an induced voltage generated therein by flashing of the photoflash unit; control means for d... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5555046 | Flash indication aid for cameras with manual flash A device for a camera having a manually operated flash assembly includes a sensing element made from a photochromic, metameric or other material which is capable of producing visible optical density changes, such as color changes, based on the level of in... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5485234 | Light source indicator for compact camera with combination flip-up flash and viewfinder assembly A compact camera comprises a flip-up flash unit which has a viewfinder opening for viewing a subject to be photographed when the flash unit is flipped up from a camera body to a use position, and a a pair of front and rear viewfinder lenses adapted to be ... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5432578 | Illuminating device for a camera A camera protects against wasting battery power by turning off an illuminating device when a photographer is engaged in an photographic operation. The illuminating device includes a back light which illuminates a displace device for display of information... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5410225 | Video camera and camera system employing aperture control In a video camera in strobe mode, when a condition for strobe light emission is ready, the aperture of an iris is reduced and the gain of an AGC amplifier is fixed at a predetermined value. Accordingly, a dark image representing the condition ready for st... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5396310 | Camera A camera includes a light measuring circuit for performing measurement of a luminance of a subject, a computing circuit for performing a computation on an aperture value and/or a shutter speed by using a result of the measurement performed by the light me... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5357308 | Automatic zoom camera and driving method therefor An automatic zoom camera and driving method therefor by which a user can take an optimal photograph, while controlling a zoom operation by synthetically controlling a shading of a picture and a change of colour varied in response to a zoom operation in ac... | 10/18/1994 |
| 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 |
| 5305050 | Camera capable of slow synchro photographing A camera capable of slow synchro photographing comprises a shutter speed setting mode changeover device for changing over a shutter speed manual setting mode and a shutter speed auto setting mode; a shutter speed restricting device for performing a restri... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5300970 | Control device for preventing red-eye effect on camera A camera capable of operating in a red-eye prevention mode. The camera has an electronic flash device which is activated by a drive circuit in synchronization with the exposure. The electronic flash device also serve as a pre-light-emission device capable... | 04/05/1994 |
| 5266990 | Electronic flash device An electronic flash device which is pivotally movable about an axis intersecting the focal plane of a photo-taking lens and of which the light distribution is changed relative to the angle of view of a camera by pivotally moving comprises a light distribu... | 11/30/1993 |
| 5243376 | Photometry apparatus in a camera A photometry apparatus in a camera includes a light receiving portion having a plurality of light receiving elements for flash photographing, and a plurality of amplifiers for amplifying the outputs of the light receiving elements, respectively, and is pr... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5210568 | Camera having a charging operation which is inhibited during an operation of the camera function section and a battery check function which is inhibited during the charging function In a camera having a power source shared between a charging circuit for a strobe emission and a camera function section other than the charging circuit, the charging operation is inhibited during an operation of the camera function section and a battery c... | 05/11/1993 |
