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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6456795 | Camera with a display device and operation keys In a multifunction camera, an area selector is used both as an operation key in a first selection mode for selecting the focus detection area of the focus detection device, and as an operation key in a second selection mode for selecting the function sett... | 09/24/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6144804 | Camera with visual line detection capability A camera which has a visual line detection device to detect the visual line of a photographer, and which inhibits visual line detection and automatic focus adjustment operations when these operations are unnecessary. Visual line detection may be inhibited... | 11/07/2000 |
| 5832321 | Camera In a camera of the present invention, when a shutter button is depressed half, a focusing and a photometry are executed. If the shutter button is held in a state of being depressed half, the results are retained. In this case, if an MF button is depressed... | 11/03/1998 |
| 4908651 | Exposure control device for a camera An exposure control device for a camera having light measuring elements capable of outputting an average light measurement corresponding to the brightness of the entire scene to be photographed, and outputting a spot light measurement corresponding to the... | 03/13/1990 |
| 4615601 | Exposure control apparatus of a camera An automatic exposure control apparatus for a camera has the shutter release button and the memory shutter release button as switches with slidable contacts, a photodetector for detecting brightness of an object, a capacitor for holding the detected photo... | 10/07/1986 |
| 4455069 | Camera with EE lock In the disclosed camera, a lock selecting arrangement sets a light measuring circuit either into an ordinary photographic mode or a lock mode in which a light measurement at a particular moment is locked so as to set the camera to that measurement despite... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4329028 | Memory locking means for digital exposure control device in cameras In a digital exposure control device for cameras including an A-D converter connected with a light measuring circuit and a memory element connected therewith for memorizing the output of the A-D converter, a one-shot is connected between the A-D converter... | 05/11/1982 |
| 4302083 | Automatic exposure control camera with means to lock continuously renewed exposure control data in a memory In the automatic exposure control camera disclosed, a memory has data stored therein on the basis of the object brightness and is periodically reset by a reset device to obtain new brightness data, while an exposure control controls exposure on the basis ... | 11/24/1981 |
| 4232955 | Memory locking means of an exposure control circuit for a camera In a photographic camera provided with an exposure control circuit including a light measuring circuit which measures scene brightness and a memory circuit which memorizes the output of the light measuring circuit, a switching circuit is connected between... | 11/11/1980 |
| 4034385 | Camera with a single automatically or manually operable memory switch A camera which has only a single memory switch capable of being either automatically or manually operated. This single memory switch is connected between a memory capacitor and a light-responsive structure for storing in the memory capacitor at least part... | 07/05/1977 |
| 3936843 | Camera with optionally operable manual controls A single lens reflex camera which measures internally-received light and which has a circuit for automatically determining exposure time and including a capacitor which stores an electrical quantity corresponding to the amount of received light, this capa... | 02/03/1976 |
