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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8137005 | Lens barrel and camera A lens barrel has a drive frame, a first lens frame, a zoom motor, and a control device. The drive frame has three first cam grooves. The first lens frame has cam pins inserted into the first cam grooves. The zoom motor rotationally drives the drive frame. The contr... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8057111 | Lens barrel assembly and camera including the same A lens barrel assembly and a camera including the lens barrel assembly are provided. The lens barrel assembly includes a barrel case accommodating at least one optical lens, and a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) configured to transmit signals between an area i... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7785021 | Retractable lens camera A retractable lens camera includes: a lens barrel; three or more lens groups provided in the lens barrel; a retracting unit that retracts the lens barrel and the lens groups into a camera body; and a displacing unit that displaces at least two lens groups to an esca... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7677815 | Photographic device with retractable lens A photographic device that includes a main body, a lens barrel and a barrel-positioning mechanism, which is operably coupled to the lens barrel and the main body. The barrel positioning mechanism is capable of moving the lens barrel between a retracted position, in ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7632023 | Camera A camera comprising: a camera body on which an image taking lens and an image display portion are provided, and a grip portion connected to the camera body so as to be foldable and extendable, wher... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7625139 | Image sensing apparatus An image sensing apparatus includes an optical member that bends and changes the optical path of the incident light; a first lens group, that is driven to retract at least partially inside the image sensing apparatus when a picture is not to be taken and to be proje... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7537399 | Digital camera having camera body A digital still camera includes a lens mount mechanism, positioned on a front face of a camera body, for securing a lens assembly to the camera body removably. A door shaped cover is secured to the camera body, and shiftable between first and second positions while ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7470071 | Pan head apparatus and cable accommodating unit A pan head apparatus includes a head unit for mounting a camera, a base unit having a stationary portion, a rotating mechanism, and a rotary portion which is rotated with respect to the stationary portion by the rotating mechanism, and a connecting member which pivo... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7448811 | Lens barrel and imaging apparatus having the same At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a lens barrel, which includes a photographic lens including a plurality of lens units, at least one lens surface of the photographic lens facing an imaging plane being a concave surface, and an optical diaphragm. The ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7435016 | Imaging device containing flexible printed wiring board An imaging device includes an image sensor on which an object image is formed via a photographing optical system; a radially-retracting device which moves the image sensor between a photographing position, at which the image sensor is located on a common optical axi... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433722 | Portable device A portable phone 1 includes a first housing 2, a second housing 4 having a display section 14, and a hinge section 3 that connects the first housing 2 and the second housing 4 so that the display section is positioned... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7425100 | Integrated selectively angled camera for clam style products A clam shell style electronic product (10) includes a base housing portion (12), a flip housing portion (26) pivotably coupled to the base housing portion, a display (28) mounted in the flip housing portion, and a camera (16) in th... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7362968 | Combination camera and DSC lens control method using the same A combination camera and a DSC lens control method using the same, including a lens position check unit for checking a position of a DSC lens if electric power is applied, and a switching unit for switching the DSC lens to a closed state if the lens position check u... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7331724 | Camera-equipped portable device A portable device includes a camera section, a camera image display, a first case having a first surface having the display therein and a second surface opposite the first surface, a second case that can be positioned over the second surface of the first case, a rot... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7242431 | Viewfinder of photographing apparatus and camcorder having the same A viewfinder to be used with a photographing apparatus or a camcorder to monitor an image being photographed. The viewfinder has a viewfinder body disposed to be drawn inside of the photographing apparatus body and to be drawn out of the photographing apparatus body... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7228068 | Lens barrel structure and image capture apparatus Disclosed is a lens barrel structure comprises: a base; a lens barrel provided on the base; a lens moving mechanism provided in the lens barrel, the lens moving mechanism supporting a lens movably in an optical axis direction thereof and being supplied with a rotati... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7203529 | Bar type portable wireless terminal A bar type portable wireless terminal includes a lower body installed at its one side surface with a camera lens unit, and at the other surface an image reproduction device is adapted to output images captured by the camera lens unit, and an upper body coupled to an... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7145593 | Foldable mobile terminal device The present provides a mobile terminal device includes first and second housings foldably coupled to each other by a hinge portion, and the first housing can turn in the direction orthogonal to the unfolding/folding direction. The mobile terminal device also include... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7133277 | Electronic device A miniaturized electronic device including a battery storing container having an opening for placing a battery in and out, a recording medium storing part for storing a recording medium detachably, and a plurality of circuit boards constituting predetermined circuit... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7129984 | Electronic device using operating system for overall apparatus control including mechanical operation A control method for an electronic device such as a digital camera, having a mechanical driving member comprising a collapsible barrel, a lens barrier and the like, which performs mechanical operations, and a system controller which controls the overall device inclu... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7058293 | Optical element retracting mechanism for a retractable lens A retractable lens barrel includes a rear holder which holds a first optical element, and is movable along the axis thereof between an operational retracted positions; an annular member movable relative to the rear holder without rotation; a retractable holder holdi... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7050244 | Zoom lens barrel A zoom lens barrel comprises an exterior unit, which mainly forms an exterior portion, an optical unit having an image pickup optical system built therein, and a control unit and can be detachably mounted on a single-lens reflex camera. The optical unit includes fir... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7039308 | Cam mechanism of a photographing lens A cam mechanism includes a cam ring, and a linearly movable frame movable supporting an optical element. The cam grooves are located at different positions in the optical axis direction and which trace a same reference cam diagram. All cam grooves are partial cam gr... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7033172 | Dental positioning grid In a digital camera having a rectangular electronic display for framing pictures, a dental positioning grid comprising: a line pattern superimposed on the rectangular electronic display, the line pattern including a horizontally centered horizontal line extending su... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6952232 | Digital camera having a viewfinder with adjustable length The invention provides a digital camera having a viewfinder with an adjustable length. The digital camera includes a first viewfinder member, a second viewfinder member, a first resilient member, a first engagement member, and a second engagement member. In this inv... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6950129 | One-time-use digital camera In one embodiment, the present invention provides a one-time-use camera. The one-time-use camera includes an electronic digital camera system for generating digital image data representative of a captured image. A non-volatile memory is provided in communication wit... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6912287 | Wearable communication device A wearable communication device includes a bone conduction actuator which is applicable for being in contact with a user's wrist, hand, back of the hand, finger or nail in order to transmit voice signals. The user inserts the user's finger into the user's ear canal,... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6764184 | Telescopically collapsing image projector A telescopically collapsible image projector has a tri-segmented body. Within the body is mounted a light source, an imaging device such as a fully colour LCD display capable of receiving electronic signals representing images for display, keystone correction means,... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6571063 | Cover for a camera for protecting image capture lens and electronic image display A protective cover for a camera having a housing with front and rear portions, the front portion including a mounting structure for an image capture lens and the rear portion having an electronic image display, the protective cover, including front and re... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6554497 | Compact camera A compact camera has a camera case that covers up more than half of a camera body in a resting position where the camera case covers a taking lens, a flash projector, a battery chamber and a cartridge chamber. By sliding the camera case to a working posit... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6527461 | Lens cover assembly for a folding camera A lens cover assembly for a folding camera includes a main frame assembly and a lens assembly pivotally mounted on the main frame assembly and movable between a closed position in which the lens assembly is disposed at least in part within the main frame ... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6491448 | Camera having a lens cover A slide cover is movably attached to a camera body. The slide cover is moved to a photographing position when a picture is taken. At the time of photographing, the slide cover is utilized as a right-hand grip. A rear face of the slide cover is provided wi... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6431768 | Digital camera having rotatable optical viewfinder unit A digital camera having a camera body which includes a main surface and a lens surface substantially orthogonal to the main surface, a photographic lens of a photographic optical system positioned on the lense surface, and an optical viewfinder unit rotat... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6397012 | Camera having a built-in and self-contained flash-lighting sub-assembly Camera having a built-in and self-contained flash sub-assembly. The camera includes a body having a movable cover member, and a flash device for illuminating a subject to be imaged. The flash device includes a light emitting unit, a capacitor for supplyin... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6390693 | Interchangeable lens camera having movable lens barrel An interchangeable lens camera including a lens barrel and a camera body. The lens barrel is attached to the camera body via a body side mount and a lens side mount. The lens barrel mounting mechanism, including the body side mount and the lens side mount... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6361223 | Lens barrel In a lens barrel of a fixed-focus type, a guide section of a back moving frame for holding a lens back group is disposed at the middle between two guide sections provided on a front moving frame for holding a lens front group. A guide shaft is inserted in... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6339447 | Image sensing apparatus An image sensing apparatus has an image sensing unit and a display unit. The image sensing unit has an optical system for photographing an object and an image sensing element. The display unit has a liquid crystal display device for performing an image di... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6334718 | Camera having a lens barrier A camera is provided with a lens barrier for covering and uncovering an opening which is formed in a front face of the camera and is for exposing a taking lens. The lens barrier protects the taking lens when the camera is not used. The lens barrier is dri... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6301438 | Film advancement assembly for a self-developing camera A film advancement assembly for a self-developing and folding camera. The camera comprising a main frame assembly and a lens assembly. The lens assembly being pivotally mounted on the main frame assembly and movable between a closed position in which the ... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6287021 | Apparatus for coupling electronic components within electronic devices such as cameras Apparatus such as a flexible printed circuit board (FPC) for coupling two electronic components that are configured to move relative to each other such as within a multi-part slide-open type camera, multi-part micro-scope, a scanner device, etc., that inc... | 09/11/2001 |
