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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7890553 | Information recording apparatus and information recording method An information recording apparatus recording contents on a recording medium and managing the contents by using a content management file includes a control unit that checks a recording state of the recording medium loaded in the information recording apparatus to de... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7251057 | Digital camera A digital camera includes a CCD imager. When a display-use UYV signal is generated on the basis of an RGB signal of an object image photographed by the CCD imager, a CPU detects a color saturation degree of the RGB signal and reduces dynamic range of a U signal and ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 6968058 | Digital evidential camera system for generating alteration detection data using built-in encryption key A digital evidential camera system is for detecting the alteration of image data obtained by photographing an object. The system comprises the camera and an alteration detection unit. The camera includes an image pickup unit for picking up an image of the object and... | 11/22/2005 |
| 5742852 | Photometry system A photometric system is provided in which the value is obtained when the center-weighted photometric value and the like are determined from a plurality of separate photometric outputs is the same value that is obtained when photometry is accomplished on t... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5376992 | Photocurrent charge type exposure measuring apparatus An output current of a photodiode is charged in a capacitor, and the voltage change of the capacitor is monitored by a plurality of comparators. The time required for the capacitor voltage to reach a predetermined value is counted by using a clock signal ... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5170205 | Eliminating camera-shake An exposure control device of a camera by which an appropriate camera-shake limit shutter speed Tvf can be obtained in accordance with a focal length f of a photographing lens, and by which an arbitrary program diagram can be set on the basis o... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5097262 | Analog-to-digital converter for camera An analog-to-digital converter for a camera has a reference signal generating element, a measurement signal generating element, and pulse output means for generating pulses of pule durations corresponding respectively to signals from the generating elemen... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5040070 | Solid-state image sensing apparatus for electronically controlling exposure by employing CCD as solid-state image sensing device and method of driving such CCD In solid-state image sensing apparatus including a frame transfer type CCD 10 as a solid-state image sensing device, charges stored in a light receiving portion 11 are once discharged externally in each vertical scanning period. Thereafter, newly stored c... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5006880 | Programmable shutter A programmable shutter of the type wherein a shutter blade is opened and closed by means of a stepping motor. The motor is rotated in a forward direction by drive pulses of a predetermined fixed period to gradually open a sector while at the same time a l... | 04/09/1991 |
| 4710014 | Control circuit for a programming shutter A control circuit for a programming shutter includes a light receiving element which is always exposed to light from a subject to be photographed and a logarithmic compression device which logarithmically compresses a photocurrent flowing through the ligh... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4586029 | Blur detecting device A blur detecting device comprises a plurality of photo-electric converter elements which are arranged in different positions to receive light from an object and to convert quantities of light received into quantities of electricity. Electric charge storin... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4500192 | Automatic exposure controller for a camera An automatic exposure controller for a camera comprises an analog-to-digital converter which converts a logarithmically compressed voltage corresponding to the brightness of an object being photographed into a digital value. A central processing unit rece... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4479707 | Exposure time reproducing device In the disclosed exposure time reproducing device, a digitally suppressed exposure time datum is expanded by shifting the decimal part of the datum according to the contents of its integral part. The expanded datum thus obtained is read out by means of pu... | 10/30/1984 |
| 4465354 | System and method for calculating a light information value A system disclosed is for calculating a light information value, such as an f/stop number, which is determined by a number of light sources such as strobes. The system calculates an optimum f/stop number for each of the strobes as the strobes are fired on... | 08/14/1984 |
| 4408852 | Automatic exposure controller for camera of TTL direct photometry type Automatic exposure controller for camera of TTL direct photometry type forms a difference between a photometric value which is obtained by determining a fixed reflection from only a first blind surface at the initiation of running of a first shutter blind... | 10/11/1983 |
| 4375321 | Exposure amount control device An exposure control device for use with a set of shutter blades which form a principal opening through which an exposure is made, includes a member which forms an auxiliary opening of a predetermined aperture before the shutter release starts. Upon releas... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4353629 | System and method for calculating a light information value A system disclosed is for calculating a light information value, such as an f/stop number, which is determined by a number of light sources such as strobes. The system calculates an optimum f/stop number for each of the strobes as the strobes are fired on... | 10/12/1982 |
| 4324462 | Exposure time control circuit for camera A circuit for controlling an exposure time of a camera which operates depending on whether or not an electronic flash used with the camera is charged and ready for operation. An arithmetic operation circuit operates upon signals representing object bright... | 04/13/1982 |
| 4306785 | Camera exposure time control circuit A combined manual and automatic exposure time control circuit for a camera in which automatic exposure data produced through photometric techniques and manual exposure data set manually are coupled through a switching circuit to a time determination circu... | 12/22/1981 |
| 4255027 | Exposure control device for photographic camera In a photographic camera provided with an electric shutter speed control circuit including a light measuring circuit in which scene brightness information is log-compressed and memorized by a memory circuit, the information is log-expanded by use of a dec... | 03/10/1981 |
| 4229088 | Exposure time controlling system An exposure time controlling system includes a circuit for producing an APEX shutter speed signal which is applied to a first discriminator for briefly classifying the APEX shutter speed signal into four classes and also to a second discriminator for sub-... | 10/21/1980 |
| 4184151 | Circuit for digitally processing exposure information A circuit system designed to realize fully digitalized automatic exposure controls is provided in which the read-in brightness information is logarithmically compressed directly into a digital quantity without the aid of any diode element that exhibits a ... | 01/15/1980 |
| 4139289 | Exposure computation circuit The present invention relates to an exposure computation circuit by means of which a computation is carried out with the values inversely proportional to all the exposure factors excepting the diaphragm value of the APEX system so as to obtain computation... | 02/13/1979 |
| 4125846 | Electronic exposure control apparatus An electronic exposure control apparatus for a camera includes a setting means to set the exposure factor, a compression means connected to said setting means, for compressing the above-mentioned exposure factor logarithmically and an analogue-digital con... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4117499 | Photographic camera with automatic exposure control Electronic circuitry for setting or controlling either one of two exposure value factors of a photographic camera, namely, the exposure time (shutter speed) and the diaphragm aperture. The circuitry includes a comparator which receives an input responsive... | 09/26/1978 |
| 4112439 | Digital display circuit for a photographic exposure meter An analog-to-digital converter circuit for a photographic exposure meter includes a plurality of parallel connected transistors 51, 54, 57 and 60 whose bases are connected to the logarithmic output of a light measuring circuit A. The transistor collectors... | 09/05/1978 |
| 4054887 | Exposure control device for photographic cameras Exposure control device for a photographic camera wherein, in a part of the exposure control device, electronic means are provided in order to form, from the luminous density of an object, the film sensitivity, and the preselected time, a voltage analogou... | 10/18/1977 |
| 4032932 | Automatic shutter controls for cameras A camera is provided with a photo-responsive pulse generator for generating pulses the number of which is determined by the logarithmically converted light intensity at an object which is to be photographed. A reference pulse generator is also provided fo... | 06/28/1977 |
| 3995284 | Automatic exposure time control circuit An automatic exposure time control circuit for use with a camera having a shutter. A light measuring circuit for measuring the scene brightness passing through the camera lens produces an electric signal proportional to the logarithm of the scene brightne... | 11/30/1976 |
| 3988069 | Automatic control device for cameras This invention relates to an automatic camera exposure control device comprising a first light measuring circuit including a photoelectric element receiving light through the objective lens of the camera and generating a first output proportional to the l... | 10/26/1976 |
