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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7574130 | Mobile communication terminal having camera function and method of controlling photographing process thereof Disclosed is a mobile communication terminal having a camera function and a method of controlling a photographing process thereof. According to an embodiment of the disclosure, the mobile communication terminal comprises two buttons relating to the camera function p... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7515824 | Shutter control apparatus and the method thereof A shutter control apparatus and the method thereof are provided. The shutter control apparatus is suitable for controlling a shutter of a camera apparatus. The shutter control apparatus includes a resistor and a switch. The resistor is coupled between an output term... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7406256 | Automated portrait studio An automated studio and control system for taking photographs is disclosed that alleviates many exposure problems and simplifies variables with which the photographer must deal in order to achieve consistent high quality photographs. The studio includes a multi-ligh... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7324151 | Photographing apparatus, and method and program for displaying focusing condition Luminance components of image profile portions are extracted from luminance components (Y components) included in image data corresponding to an image within a focus frame. A profile component evaluation value is obtained by totalizing the absolute values of two-dim... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7177537 | Automated portrait studio An automated studio and control system for taking photographs is disclosed that alleviates many exposure problems and simplifies variables with which the photographer must deal in order to achieve consistent high quality photographs. The studio includes a multi-ligh... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7149422 | Motion detector camera A motion detector camera includes a camera mechanism mounted inside a housing, a motion detector exposed on a surface of the housing, and a controller for controlling the camera mechanism in response to signals received from the motion detector. The camera can inclu... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7139472 | Camera system A camera executes a photographing operation with multiple flashes. The camera includes a photometering unit and a control unit. The control unit controls light emission at a first electronic flash unit which is either built into or externally mounted at the camera a... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7110666 | Electronic device, photographing control method, photographing control program, and processor An electronic device with a camera function, an electronic device, a photographing control method, a photographing control program, and a processor is provided with a preventive function to block inappropriate photographing such as spy shots. A photographing reporti... | 09/19/2006 |
| 6839513 | Photography method that protects against photographer error A camera takes two photographs for a single actuation of its shutter release. One of the photographs uses the camera settings specified by the user, and the other photograph uses camera settings automatically selected by the camera. The taking of the second photogra... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6839511 | Camera system, camera, accessory device and method for judging and controlling an accessory device In a camera system according to the invention, a camera body and an interchangeable lens have respective identification data tables that are congruous with each other. As an appropriate data address is indicated to the interchangeable lens by the camera body, an ide... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6738574 | Camera system and accessory device In a camera system according to the invention, a camera body and an interchangeable lens have respective identification data tables that are congruous with each other. As an appropriate data address is indicated to the interchangeable lens by the camera body, an ide... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6654559 | Camera A camera is disclosed that includes: a plurality of operating members which is operated to set states of the camera and operating conditions, or to cause the camera to perform operations; a display unit which displays guidance information on the set state... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6618562 | Camera After loading a film cassette into a cassette chamber, a lid of the cassette chamber is closed. Interlocking with the lid, a lid lock member is moved to a lock position to lock the lid. When the lid lock member is moved to the lock position, a shutter loc... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6505001 | Rotor structure of spindle motor In a rotor structure of a spindle motor, an underside of a turntable and a top surface of a rotary yoke are integrated with each other by insert molding to eliminate an air gap therebetween in prior arts to thereby allow a stator assembly within the rotar... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6311022 | Film-back exchangeable camera In a film back exchangeable camera provided with a camera body, an exchangeable film back is removably attached to the camera body. A light shielding member is removably attached to the film back so that the light shielding member prevents a film in the f... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6275660 | Manual-wind camera A manual-wind camera having a wind lever in which a film having no sprocket holes is loaded, the film being wound on a take-up spool, frame by frame, by manually operating the wind lever, includes a pulse generator which generates pulses in accordance wit... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6240252 | Camera A camera is provided with a distance measurement device having a plurality of distance measurement regions and outputting distance measurement information of each distance measurement region, a light adjustment device having a plurality of light adjustmen... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6141500 | Control method for duty-cycling a camera A camera is enabled by film present and film door sensor switches to perform dry cycle operation for testing of camera operation only when film is not present and the film door sensor switch indicates that the film door is open. Provision is made to bypas... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6047137 | Camera In a camera capable of setting a flash bracketing photo-taking mode in which an amount of light emission by a flash device is increased or decreased by a desired amount with respect to a predetermined value for every shot to be taken using the flash devic... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6026250 | Camera, bar code reader for camera and method of detecting bar code reading error A camera for use with a Brownie roll film having a bar code containing data about a roll film, such as a film speed and a roll film type. The bar code is printed on an adhesive tape which secures light-shielding paper to a leading end of a photo filmstrip... | 02/15/2000 |
| 5937213 | Camera having scale imprintable capabilities and method for imprinting the scale A camera, such as a video camera or other electrically recordable camera, has scale imprintable capabilities and a method for imprinting a scale onto memory storage media. The camera and method imprints, optically or electrically, a standard scale on memo... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5848303 | Camera having an enlarged marco photographic range and a control method therefore The camera has an enlarged macro photographic range and the control method for the camera controls the diaphragm, enlarges the photographic range and takes the photograph of the object a the flash, so that a photograph having a suitable exposure can be ob... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5815750 | Camera having a finger detecting device A camera has a finger detecting device for indirectly detecting that a finger rests on an electronic flash and so forth due to unsuitable holding of the camera. The finger detecting device comprises a conductive member and an auxiliary electrode. The cond... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5790490 | Anti-shake camera An anti-shake camera measures a shaking movement of the camera around at least a first dimension and around a second dimension (e.g., X and Y dimensions). Based on these measured camera shake values, the anti-shake camera generates a forecasted camera sha... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5715487 | Camera and cartridge with password protection A password protected camera system, comprising a camera incorporating, means for receiving user entered passwords for controlling access to the camera's features and to the film cartridge is disclosed. The camera incorporates circuitry for writing and rea... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5619297 | Camera A camera has a camera body being made of an electro-conductive material and a plurality of windows for light-projection or a light intake thereon. At least one of covering members for the windows includes an exposed part being exposed toward an outside of... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5608478 | Camera with lock-controlling lens barrier A camera with a lens barrier is provided with a slide member, which moves together with the lens barrier over a certain range of motion. A locking portion for keeping a shutter button locked and a stopper for limiting the push-down movement amount of the ... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5357297 | Camera capable of sensing deficiency in light quantity of flash and control method therefor A camera capable of sensing and indicating insufficient flash illumination which can indicate lack of illumination when an object is far away and in a low brightness condition. A central processing unit CPU of the camera is connected to a switch block inc... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5355189 | Camera having a zoom flash unit A camera with a built-in or removable, zoom flash unit having an illumination angle that varies automatically in accordance with the focal length of a photographic zoom lens that is attached to the camera. The camera inhibits the shutter release until the... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5335042 | Camera with a motion compensation device A camera, having a motion compensation device, permits the user to select one of two modes of operations using a selector switch. Partial depression of a shutter release button initiates exposure and auto-focus routines while complete depression actuates ... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5204709 | Camera apparatus having function for changing condition of release operation A control apparatus for a camera according to this invention causes a camera main body to start a photographing operation when a first signal is output by an operation of a release operating member. When proper photographing conditions cannot be obtained,... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5150150 | Apparatus for preventing image from being blurred in camera An apparatus is provided for preventing an image from being blurred as it is being recorded on the film of a camera. Angular velocity sensors are provided for detecting the angular velocity applied to the camera, and an actuator is provided for actuating ... | 09/22/1992 |
| 4901096 | Camera apparatus and method An apparatus and method for controlling the operation of a camera, such as a photographic camera or a still image recording electronic camera, to prevent the recording of picture information which is blurred due to camera movement while the shutter of the... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4690530 | Camera with release control and automatic film sensitivity setting A release operation of a camera adapted to be transferred to a normal photographing condition through winding-up of a film by a predetermined length is allowed in conditions before transfer to the normal photographing condition even if a release inhibitio... | 09/01/1987 |
| 4534634 | Erroneous release preventing device for camera A device for preventing erroneous shutter release in an electronic release type camera having an automatic aperture control function, a bulb function and a self-timer function. The device includes an automatic aperture controlling switch which is turned o... | 08/13/1985 |
| 4500187 | Shutter arrangement A shutter mechanism for a camera wherein, when a release button is depressed, a main release plate is moved to release a running plate from a latching connection. An auxiliary release plate follows up the main release plate until it comes into frictional ... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4482236 | Electrically operated camera and disabling device therefor The disclosed camera sequentially controls the operations of two or more units, for example, an exposure control circuit and a film advance motor. An arrangement senses whether or not an operation has been completed normally and stores the result. When th... | 11/13/1984 |
| 4445767 | Focus detecting camera A focus detecting camera comprises a switching circuit for an automatic release which is operated in response to an in-focus detection signal, a shutter release button mechanism which is capable of maintaining a partially depressed condition of a shutter ... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4396266 | Motor drive device In a motor drive device mountable on a camera having manually operable first switch means, a magnet adapted to be energized by actuation of the first switch means and release a shutter, and first release lock means manually operated to render only the fir... | 08/02/1983 |
| 4382669 | Disablement of shutter release in photographic camera having interchangeable objectives A photographic camera of interchangeable lens type has an interchangeable objective that can be removably mounted on a camera body and a plurality of switches each capable of assuming a first or a second state. The switches all assume the same state when ... | 05/10/1983 |
