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"To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth--all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances."
Lee deForest, American radio pioneer ; 1957
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7889986 | Image-taking apparatus An image-taking apparatus includes: a face-detecting section that detects a face in a subject image; and a face-metering section that meters individual faces when the faces are detected by the face-detecting section, thereby obtaining metered values for the respecti... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7720372 | Photographing device, photographing method, and program for photographing a plurality of images consecutively by changing an exposure value A photographing device configured to photograph a plurality of images consecutively by changing an exposure value is provided. The photographing device may include a control-range-determination unit configured to determine a control range which is a range where the ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7646977 | Depth of field bracketing Methods and Systems are provided to enable automatically taking a series of depth of field bracket photos by varying the f-stop and shutter speed for a particular scene to keep the exposure constant. The method may be practiced on a digital camera which has been equ... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7620314 | Photographing apparatus and method Provided are a photographing apparatus and method which can obtain the same effect as in a weighted summation method by capturing a plurality of images of a subject while appropriately controlling exposure time for each of the images and adding up the images and can... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7593633 | Image-taking apparatus An image-taking apparatus includes: a face-detecting section that detects a face in a subject image; and a face-metering section that meters individual faces when the faces are detected by the face-detecting section, thereby obtaining metered values for the respecti... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7444075 | Imaging device, camera, and imaging method At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an imaging device, for taking images under different exposure conditions to create a single image, which includes a first condition-obtaining device configured to obtain a first exposure condition candidate for an Nth... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7398016 | Backlight compensation using threshold detection A method and circuit for excluding regions from an exposure calculation is described. The method includes obtaining pre-image data representing an image of a scene and dividing the image into a plurality of regions. Regions that contain a predetermined number of bri... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7262794 | Method of making digital photograph and digital photograph made by that method A method of making a digital photograph composed of a moving water element and still element by applying a known computer image processing system, and a digital photograph made by this method, involves taking a basic photograph indicating a realistic image of still ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7242384 | Image processing device, and image display device provided with such an image processing device In an image display device, how R, G, and B light is emitted to display an image on a display panel is measured with a sensor, and, according to the measurement value obtained from the sensor, the power with which to drive a light source that supplies light needed f... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239805 | Method and system for combining multiple exposure images having scene and camera motion A panoramic high-dynamic range (HDR) image method and system of combining multiple images having different exposures and at least partial spatial overlap wherein each of the images may have scene motion, camera motion, or both. The major part of the panoramic HDR im... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7042510 | Setting operation device and electronic apparatus It is an object of this invention to provide a setting operation device which can effectively cope with the tendency toward multiple functions and allows a user to easily change and check functions. In order to achieve this object, the device includes a first rotati... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6965410 | Image sensing apparatus employing dark image data to correct dark noise An apparatus has an image sensing device, an instruction device for instructing to execute a plurality of image sensing operations with different image sensing times of the image sensing device, and a signal processing device for performing a first image sensing ope... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6571058 | Photometry device A photometry device for a camera is provided with a normal light sensor having a plurality of photometry areas, and a plurality of photometric sensors for colorimetry. A photometry value determining system determines a photometry value at each photometry ... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6427052 | Exposure-condition setting device for camera An exposure-condition setting device for a camera includes an Xv dial for setting an exposure compensation value, having a plurality of exposure compensation value indicia, the exposure compensation value indicia representing exposure compensation values;... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6295415 | Camera A camera having a magnetic recording circuit for recording information in a magnetic recording part of a film at each of photographing frames of the film is arranged such that, in an automatic exposure bracketing mode or an AE lock mode, information indic... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6246836 | Camera In a camera capable of setting an auto-bracketing photo-taking mode of photographing on a plurality of frames of a film continuously with a photo-taking exposure value changed automatically and stepwise, when the auto-bracketing photo-taking mode is set, ... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6118946 | Method and apparatus for scannerless range image capture using photographic film A method for image capture and estimation of range information is provided which uses photographic film as the image capture mechanism. A plurality of identical images are captured on film yielding an image bundle wherein each image in the image bundle is... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6055379 | Flash device, camera, and camera system composed of flash device and camera body A flash device having a flash bracketing function includes a setting device for setting a flash bracketing operation, and a control circuit for, when a camera connected to the flash device is of a type having the flash bracketing function, outputting info... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5740470 | Vibration reducing camera A vibration reducing camera comprises a vibration reducing optical system, a vibration reducing drive unit for reducing vibrations by changing a state of the vibration reducing optical system, a state detecting unit for detecting a state of the vibration ... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5543872 | Camera equipped with an information recording apparatus In a camera having magnetic recording apparatus for recording information regarding photograph film frames, a controller determines when a recording head engages a recording medium in accordance with different photographing modes. In a single-frame mode t... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5508779 | Auto-bracketing system An auto-bracketing system for use with a camera. A plurality of exposure values, representing different exposure conditions, are calculated. The plurality of exposure values are calculated in accordance with at least two brightness values metered by optic... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5486893 | Camera having a display for predicted images A camera has a predicted image display device in which image signals based on different kinds and control values of photographing information are stored and in which images based on the stored image signals are displayed. Photography may be performed base... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5402203 | Camera with automatic bracketing device A camera with an automatic bracketing device for permitting photographing of a plurality of frames in group while exposure is stepwise changed under a certain exposure condition solves a problem which is caused when the number of frames to be photographed... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5333027 | Camera having automatic exposure bracketing device This invention provides a camera having an automatic exposure bracketing device for performing photography while sequentially altering an exposure value for exposure of each frame. According to the invention, the camera is capable of selectively operating... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5331366 | Camera A camera has a first photographing mode for also performing a second photographing operation at a focusing-lens position of a first photographing operation, a second photographing mode for performing autofocusing for every photographing operation, and dia... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5323204 | Automatic optimization of photographic exposure parameters for non-standard display sizes and/or different focal length photographing modes through determination and utilization of extra system speed Exposure control apparatus, and various accompanying methods, for use in a photographic camera for improving the overall quality of photographed images, i.e. increasing the number of acceptable and higher quality images, that are produced by the camera fo... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5266983 | Camera having the plural photograph function A camera having the plural photograph function which can accomplish plural photographs in which a plurality of scenes of substantially the same composition are automatically photographed in succession under a plurality of photographing conditions set on t... | 11/30/1993 |
| 5253009 | Exposure control apparatus of camera having an auto-exposure bracket mode An exposure control apparatus of a camera includes a first switch which can select a plurality of drive modes including an auto-exposure bracket mode (AEB mode), a second switch which issues signals when operated, a third switch which can modify an exposu... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5164758 | Exposure control apparatus of camera having an automatic exposure bracket drive mode An exposure control apparatus of a camera includes a first switch which can select a plurality of drive modes including an auto-exposure bracket mode (AEB mode), a second switch which issues signals when operated, a third switch which can modify an exposu... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5099267 | Exposure control apparatus of camera An exposure control apparatus of a camera includes a first switch which can select a plurality of drive modes including an auto-exposure bracket mode (AEB mode), a second switch which issues signals when operated, a third switch which can modify an exposu... | 03/24/1992 |
| 4992820 | Camera system A camera system including a camera body and a camera accessory attachable to the camera body, such as an interchangeable back lid, an interchangeable lens, a flash device and so on, is disclosed. In the system, a plurality of circuits provided in pluralit... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4974012 | Display device for automatic exposure bracketing shooting A display device is provided for automatic exposure bracketing. In particular, a display is provided for each exposure value for all frames to be used in the automatic exposure bracketing and the exposure compensation value set by an exposure compensation... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4935766 | Camera system including exposure mode data back and flash accessories A camera system including a camera body and a camera accessory attachable to the camera body, such as an interchangeable back lid, an interchangeable lens, a flash device and so on, is disclosed. In the system, a plurality of circuits provided in a plural... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4918481 | Camera capable of bracketing exposure A camera capable of restarting the bracketing exposure mode even after all the frames of a film have been exposed during the bracketing exposure mode. An output derived from detector for detecting the trailing end of a film is delivered to controller whic... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4914466 | Bracketing exposure control device A bracketing exposure control camera having a total exposure shift range calculated based on the number of frames and the exposure shift amount. If the total exposure shift range overflows a predetermined exposure shift range, then the number of frames an... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4878751 | Camera system A camera system including a camera body and a camera accessory attachable to the camera body, such as an interchangeable back lid, an interchangeable lens, a flash device and so on, is disclosed. In the system, a plurality of circuits provided in pluralit... | 11/07/1989 |
| 4862205 | Auto-bracket device for camera An auto-bracket device automatically shifts exposure of each frame by a predetermined amount in a multi-frame photographing mode. When multi-frame photographing is done in an auto-bracket mode, even if a shutter release button is released in the course of... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4812870 | Auto-bracket device for camera An auto-bracket device for automatically shifting exposure of each frame by a predetermined amount in a multi-frame photographing mode. In a photographing mode of a camera which is not compatible with the auto-bracket photographing mode, the auto-bracket ... | 03/14/1989 |
| 4734727 | Bracketing exposure control camera A bracketing exposure control camera is structured in such a manner that a preset number of frames for bracketing photography is compared with the actual number of frames exposed so far in bracketing photography and exposure control operation is forcibly ... | 03/29/1988 |
