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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7415203 | Method and apparatus for controlling automatic exposure in a camera For controlling exposure in a camera, first and second brightness levels of first and second areas of a captured image are determined. First and second weight values for the first and second brightness levels are determined with an increase of the first weight value... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7340159 | Image taking device and personal identification system In order to perform personal identification by matching a first body image that is obtained in advance by an image taking process with a second body image that is obtained when the identification is performed, an image taking device (1) for obtaining the seco... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7253575 | Industrial optical shutter A highly versatile optical shutter for industrial and scientific applications is disclosed. The has a aperture which defines a light path through the shutter, and a shutter vane or blade that is moved into and out of the light path using a precision, microprocessor ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7164447 | Solid state image pickup device A solid state image pickup device is provided which can reduce crosstalks between range finding photoelectric conversion elements (AF sensor) and photometry photoelectric conversion elements (AE sensor). The solid state image pickup device has an n-type epitaxial se... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7046044 | Differential preamplifier having balanced resistor network The present invention comprises a pair of circuits (171, 172) within the first stage (100) of an AC signal pre-amplifier. The present invention reduces the current mismatch at the base of the first stage transistors (141, 142, 143, 144) resultin... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6920286 | Camera having proper exposure controlling function A camera includes a luminance distribution detecting unit, a changing point determining unit, and an exposure controller. The luminance distribution detecting unit detects distribution of brightness in a photographing picture. The changing point determining unit det... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6909799 | Method and apparatus for following and inspecting an edge or border To follow and inspect a common edge between two sheet metal blanks which are to be welded together, a line pattern is projected across the edge by a projector and is imaged by a camera. The image captured is analyzed in order to derive from the trace of the lines in... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6903772 | Image sensor In order to downsize an image sensor, the present invention provides the image sensor which comprises: a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements; and a memory for storing therein control information used to control signals sent from the plurality of photoelec... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6564014 | Flash control device A flash control device includes: a flash emission section that performs main light emission at photography and preliminary light emission before photography; a flash photometric section that divides reflected light from a photographic subject due to the p... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6535693 | Photometry device A photometry device for a camera, includes a normal light sensor having spectral sensitivity characteristics close to visual sensitivity characteristics, a plurality of colorimetric sensors having spectral sensitivity characteristics that are different fr... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6389232 | Method and apparatus for controlling exposure of camera An exposure control method and apparatus for a camera having a two-area divided brightness measurement system. A central light value is determined based on a central area brightness of a photographic scene, and a peripheral light value is determined based... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6385403 | Photometric apparatus for microscope A photometric apparatus for a microscope comprises a light-reception element having a plurality of concentrically arranged photometric measurement areas, the light-reception element receiving observation light from the microscope and measuring a brightnes... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6370331 | Photometry/distance measuring unit A compact and high-performance photometry/distance measuring unit in which a chip can be used in common optimally, and the characteristics of the devices can be optimized. The photometry/distance measuring unit comprises a distance measuring PSD, a spot s... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6275659 | Method and apparatus for controlling exposure of camera An exposure control method and apparatus for a camera having a two-area divided brightness measurement system. A central light value is determined based on a central area brightness of a photographic scene, and a peripheral light value is determined based... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6215961 | Camera A camera including a first and second luminance detector, a distance detector and a calculator. The first luminance detector, having a first spectral sensitivity and receiving light from a larger region of a photographing view, generates a first luminance... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6081669 | Photometric operation system of camera A photometric operation system of a camera includes a photographing lens with a variable focal length. A plurality of photometering devices independently receive and detect rays of object light within a plurality of photometering areas of different sizes.... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6052536 | Camera In a camera wherein a lens cap is detachably attached there are provided first and second photometric sensors on a lens barrel and the camera main frame, respectively. It is detected in accordance with the photometric values by the first and second photom... | 04/18/2000 |
| 5880782 | System and method for controlling exposure of a video camera by utilizing luminance values selected from a plurality of luminance values A video camera system and method for automatically controlling the exposure of a desired object image. A plurality of average luminance values are respectively determined by a plurality of light measurement units. A plurality of reference luminance values... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5793422 | Electron shutter control with exposure control responsive to shutter gain differences The present invention is directed to a video camera which comprises an image sensing device for sensing an incident light to generate charges and supplying an output signal corresponding to the charges, the output signal comprising a recurrent vertical sc... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5771411 | Photometry device and method A photometry device includes a light-receiving element that photoelectrically converts light from the subject field and outputs an electrical signal corresponding to the intensity of the light. The light-receiving element is provided with at least one lig... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5717965 | Photometry device and camera with photometry device A device has a photometry unit for performing a photometry operation of an object field using an accumulation type photometry element, and an accumulation time determination unit for determining the accumulation time of the photometry element. The accumul... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5678098 | Method and apparatus for controlling exposure of camera An exposure control method and apparatus for a camera having a two-area divided brightness measurement system. A central light value is determined based on a central area brightness of a photographic scene, and a peripheral light value is determined based... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5666574 | Photo-detection methods and apparatus Light is made incident on a pair of photo-sensors having different sensitivity characteristics. One of them has higher spectroscopic sensitivity than the other within a specified range of wavelength, but the other has spectroscopic sensitivity over a wide... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5649243 | Photometric device and method A photometric device that makes improved accuracy of screen photometry possible is disclosed. The photometric device includes a screen component that transmits a luminous flux from a subject field, a light emitting indicating device that is placed in the ... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5638120 | Electron shutter control with exposure control responsive to shutter gain differences The present invention is directed to a video camera which comprises an image sensing device for sensing an incident light to generate charges and supplying an output signal corresponding to the charges, the output signal comprising a recurrent vertical sc... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5627620 | Photometry device and method An accumulation-type light receiving element photoelectrically converts light from the subject field and outputs an electric signal on the basis of the brightness. An accumulation time setting component sets the accumulation time of the light receiving el... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5627621 | Camera In a camera with a finder device which is capable of diopter adjustment, a visual axis detection unit detects the visual axis direction and the fundus imaging state of an observer, a multi-distance measurement unit measures distances to a plurality of poi... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5606393 | Illumination measuring device for panoramic photography An illumination measuring device for panoramic picture taking has a first photoelectric illumination intensity receiver which diffusely determines light falling in a first measuring region and illuminating a first panoramic portion, at least one further p... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5585885 | Camera photometer An optical low-pass filter is built with circular phase components consisting of randomly distributed convex and concave surfaces. The area of the phase components is structured to cover 1/2 the entire surface area of the low-pass filter. Moreover, the ph... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5576799 | Camera photometry system This invention relates to a camera photometry system which uses accumulation-type photoelectric elements to output photometry information related to the brightness of the subject field. Its purpose is to provide a camera photometry system which has a simp... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5541706 | Exposure calculation device for a camera In an exposure calculation device for a camera including a photometric sensor which performs photometry on the light from an object to be photographed and outputs a photometric signal related to the brightness thereof and a calculation device which calcul... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5541705 | Camera with large dynamic range In accordance with the present invention, an apparatus and method are described which in general provide for an extended dynamic range in light sensitivity for an imaging device. This extended dynamic range is achieved primarily through control of the lig... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5534968 | Camera having variable photometry conditions The boundary shape of a photometry region and the sensitivity distribution of the photometry areas included in the photometry region are specified by, for example, the CPU of a camera based on the input of selection commands from an electronic system note... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5481331 | Control system for camera with multiple opto-sensors In a photographic camera having a plurality of opto-sensors and a microprocessor-based controller, the opto-sensor output signals are coupled via a common bus connection to an input terminal of the controller. A programmably variable output impedance comm... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5473405 | Shielding blades for TTL multi-pattern light adjustment preventing light leakage between curtains According to one aspect of the present invention, a focal plane shutter of a camera for conducting TTL multi-pattern light adjustment is provided that comprises a plurality of shielding blades for covering an aperture in a developed position. Each of the ... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5450162 | Photo-taking apparatus capable of making a photograph with flash by a flash device A flash modulation control apparatus in a camera having a photo-taking lens and a flash device mounted thereon comprises a photographing mode setting device for setting a photographing mode in which optimal exposure is obtained in conformity with an objec... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5444509 | Camera shake compensating camera A camera shake compensating camera compensates for detected results of camera shake and calculates the actual amount of shake occurring in the camera through the differentiated value of the detected result of camera shake and a previously established time... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5394217 | Method and apparatus for determining line frequency and detecting variable frequency light sources A line frequency is determined by interleaved sampling of ambient light to obtain analog voltage samples at predetermined sampling rates associated with two or more line frequencies. Where there are two line frequencies, one method separates the first sam... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5394207 | Device for stabilizing images A device suppresses blur by light refraction in a photographically formed image, thereby stabilizing the image. The device includes a detector for detecting whether a conversion lens for varying the focal length of the photographic lens is attached in fro... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5353080 | Exposure-equalizing system for photographic images A transparent photochromic medium is placed before the film or film-equivalent of a camera or photographic imaging device such that a light exposure of the medium temporarily darkens it according to the different light values in the image. A subsequent ex... | 10/04/1994 |
