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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7783190 | Image pick-up apparatus with a multi-area AF function In an image forming apparatus, the auto-focusing process and the photometry system may be coupled such that when a multi-area AF system is set, the setting of the auto-focusing areas of the multi-area AF system is performed in accordance with a selected photometry s... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7433591 | Digital image processing apparatus and method of controlling the same to photograph in user set continuous photographing mode Provided is a method of controlling a digital image processing apparatus such as a digital camera which can continuously photograph the same subject using various setting values stored in advance, and a digital image processing apparatus. The method of controlling t... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7386228 | Image taking apparatus and image taking method An image taking apparatus installed with an image blur correction unit for correcting image blur by combining images, so image taking time in a case of continuous shooting of the images is prevented from being long and operations are carried out in a manner in which... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7349011 | Image pickup control apparatus, image pickup control method, image pickup control system, and storage medium In an image pickup control apparatus capable of remotely and reliably controlling an image pickup apparatus from another apparatus, control data for controlling the image pickup apparatus is stored in advance and is transmitted to the image pickup apparatus when the... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7313323 | Camera system with a photometering device and an external operating device A camera system includes a camera body including a photometering device and an external operating device, and a photographing lens which is detachably attached to the camera body, the photographing lens including an aperture setting device for selecting an auto aper... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7280752 | Network address routing using multiple routing identifiers Network address routing systems and techniques enable multiple lookup techniques and multiple data structures to be used in identifying a next-hop route for a single destination address. Various subparts of a destination address are examined separately to determine ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7259923 | Lens barrel A lens barrel, including, a moving frame (2) to hold a lens (8), a direct-advance ring (4) provided on an outer periphery of the moving frame and movable relative to the moving frame in an optical direction, a resilient member (6) provide... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7176964 | Electronic still camera provided with a display An electronic still camera includes an image pickup unit for picking up an object image to generate a frame image, the image pickup unit having a single pickup mode of picking up an object image to generate a single frame image, and a continuous pickup mode of picki... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7151570 | Imaging apparatus with interchangeable lens apparatus, the lens apparatus having a memory for storing optical performance data of the lens apparatus An optical apparatus including an imaging apparatus and a lens apparatus each having a communicating portion performing communications is disclosed. The optical apparatus is provided with: an imaging optical unit; a memory in which information of an optical performa... | 12/19/2006 |
| 6494626 | Focal plane shutter A focal plane shutter capable of carrying out electric automatic exposure control and mechanical manual exposure control comprises a selecting member for selecting an automatic exposure position and a plurality of exposure time period positions, a switchi... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6240256 | Exposure compensation device for an auto exposure camera An exposure compensation device for an automatic exposure camera which is able to easily perform exposure compensation setting regardless of an exposure control mode setting. A first setting unit sets the lens aperture. A second setting means sets the shu... | 05/29/2001 |
| 5895133 | Exposure mode selecting device An exposure mode selecting device uses an A-position AE mode code, an M-position AE mode code, and a no-aperture-ring AE mode code, so that a proper exposure mode is selected. When an interchangeable lens, having an aperture ring being set to an A-positio... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5867737 | Camera system with interchangeable lenses having varying aperture setting devices A camera system having a camera body adapted to operate with multiple types of interchangeable lenses, some of the lenses having an aperture ring and other of the lenses without an aperture ring. Based upon a signal, received via a contact point, a determ... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5848307 | Camera for taking consecutive exposures A consecutive taking camera has 16 taking lenses (13a-13p). Time-sequential exposures can be taken in 16 sub-frames (74a-74h, 75a-75h) upon shutter releasing at one time, the sub-frames (74a-74h, 75a-75h) arranged on photo film in a direction of transport... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5809344 | Camera A camera includes an operation device having a plurality of operation modes for executing an operation, a mode changing device for changing over operation modes, a designation device for designating a desired operation mode as an initial mode, and a reset... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5774746 | Camera with learning function A camera wherein exposure parameters fixed by a program line can be shifted along an exposure value EV line so that exposure parameters for an exposure operation are based on the shifted program line according to the preference of the camera user. The cam... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5687410 | Information setting apparatus of camera An information setting apparatus of a camera, which permits an exposure mode to be set, includes a first setting unit for setting a shutter speed of the camera when the exposure mode is a manual mode, and a second setting unit for setting an aperture valu... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5640611 | Camera having an image blur suppression device An image-shake correcting camera including an image shake correcting device for correcting image shakes caused by camera shakes and a photographic mode setting device for setting an operation condition of camera in photography, in which the image shake co... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5602616 | Exposure control apparatus of camera A camera having a manually actuable switch for temporarily shifting the camera to an optimum exposure value so that exposure factors, based upon a manually set shutter speed and a manually set aperture value, are replaced by optimum exposure factors based... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5576800 | Camera having an auxiliary photographing function A camera having an auxiliary photographing function comprises photometering device for photometering an area to be photographed, exposure value calculation device for calculating an exposure value in accordance with the output of said photometering device... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5465133 | Still video camera A mode changing device for a camera employing a minimum number of actuating members to permit a user to change an operating mode and/or setting of the camera. A mode actuating member and a selector switch, used in conjunction with an LCD panel that indica... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5349414 | Aperture-priority lens shutter apparatus for a camera An aperture-priority lens shutter apparatus for a camera has a compact construction and an automatic exposure control function. The aperture-priority electromagnetic lens shutter apparatus for a camera comprises a lens mount; two lens shutter blades servi... | 09/20/1994 |
| 5319413 | Camera system A camera system comprises a brightness measuring circuit, a exposure line choosing circuit, an operable switch, a film driver and a film driving mode selector. The brightness measuring circuit measures brightness of a photographic scene to send a brightne... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5311245 | Camera system operable by carrying data from a camera accessory to a camera body A camera system operable with data carried from a camera accessory to a camera body. The camera accessory has a ROM for storing various data at a plurality of addresses, respectively, each of which data consists of a plurality of bits, and a coupling term... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5255044 | Automatic exposure control apparatus with improved exposure value calculation for photographing a moving object An automatic exposure control apparatus calculates a predicted exposure value to be used at a time of exposure so as to account for predicted movement of an object between a time of photometering values corresponding to respective photometering areas may ... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5126779 | Method and apparatus for successively generating photometric values A method and apparatus for effecting photometry in an automatic exposure camera includes the provision of photometric means which determines the brightness of an image field. Upon depression of an operating button, photometry is successively made of the b... | 06/30/1992 |
| 5079583 | Shutter apparatus which also serves as a diaphragm This invention relates to a shutter apparatus which also serves as a diaphragm. In this invention, there are provided two drive control modes for the shutter apparatus; the first mode for controlling a control voltage to be supplied to a shutter driving m... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5070356 | Camera having television mode A camera having a television mode has a shutter unit for opening and closing a plurality of shutter blades used as a shutter and a diaphragm by rotating a step motor in normal and reverse directions; a photometric device for performing a photometric opera... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5057927 | Image sensing apparatus An image sensing apparatus has a diaphragm for an imaging optical system, a selecting switch for switching between automatic control and manual control of the diaphragm, and a diaphragm controlling circuit capable of controlling and varying the operating ... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5045875 | Camera with automatic focusing device A camera having an automatic focusing device is arranged to inhibit the diaphragm aperture thereof from being controlled and set during the process of automatic focusing at any aperture value near to a full aperture value at which the focusing accuracy of... | 09/03/1991 |
| 4920372 | Camera A camera having a lens shutter and a focal-plane shutter, includes a selector circuit for selecting either a lens shutter mode or a focal-plane shutter mode; a first driving device for controlling either the programmed exposure value of the lens shutter o... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4841322 | Camera having interchangeable lenses A camera and interchangeable lenses for such camera in which it is automatically detected whether or not the lens mounted on the camera has an automatic focusing capability. If it does, respective sets of electrical contacts provided on the lens and camer... | 06/20/1989 |
| 4774536 | Photographic camera A photographic camera wherein photographing mode selecting circuit is provided to select a real focal length photographing mode and a pseudo focal length photographing mode for making a print of a field narrower than the field defined by the real focal le... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4768047 | Photographic camera A photographic camera having a real focal length photographing mode and two kinds of a first and a second pseudo focal length photographing modes. In the first pseudo focal length photographing mode, the photographic camera is capable of specifying a scop... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4664496 | Camera system Most of the elements constituting this camera system consists of digital circuits, whereby a central processing unit is built in this camera system in such a manner that various kinds of photographic modes are possible without increasing the number of the... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4630917 | Exposure control device of a camera A camera in which the exposure of a film is controlled includes means for making a digital signal, converting means for converting the digital signal from the making means into an analog signal and putting out the analog signal, means for detecting the br... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4582412 | Automatic exposure control apparatus for single lens reflex camera An automatic exposure control apparatus for single lens reflex camera on which can be mounted either a lens adaptable for the automatic aperture control mode or a lens adaptable for the manual aperture control mode irrespective of the mode now being selec... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4534639 | Camera having an exposure mode change-over device A camera has a light measuring mode setting circuit set according to an exposure mode change-over operation a change-over circuit for a light measuring range is switched over according to the setting of the light measuring mode setting circuit. Thus a lig... | 08/13/1985 |
| 4530586 | Apparatus for the setting of exposure control mode in camera A mode-setting apparatus for a camera is selectively operable in various exposure control modes including, in particular, aperture priority mode and shutter speed priority mode. The mode setting apparatus is provided with means for detecting the presettin... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4497564 | Exposure mode setting device in an exposure control apparatus of a camera An exposure control apparatus of a camera comprises exposure control device adjusted to control the quantity of light applied onto a photosensitive film, a device for preparing a photometering output responsive to the quantity of light from an object to b... | 02/05/1985 |
