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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6819868 | Camera A camera is provided that includes a camera housing and a TFT panel, which permits verification of a formed image, located on the back of the camera housing. A strobe unit and an electronic viewfinder unit are located in the upper part of the camera housing. The ele... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6724991 | Binocularly viewable holographic viewfinder and camera A camera has a body and a taking lens mounted to the body. The taking lens defines a subject field. A viewing window is joined to the body. The viewing window is transmissive of a light image of the subject field. The viewing window bears a holographic image of a re... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6553186 | Camera viewfinder with aiming aid A viewfinder informs the photographer when a camera is tilted relative to a subject to be photographed. The viewfinder includes a pair of front and rear openings optically aligned to view the subject through the two openings, and a translucent element sur... | 04/22/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6408138 | Camera view-correction apparatus for taking pictures The camera view-correction apparatus comprises at least one dividing plate located in the view finder so as to divide the view finder into several regions. Each region has a light source at the far end, so that when all the light sources are successfully ... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6122455 | Lensless viewfinder and lensless viewfinder camera A viewfinder, particularly useful in a camera, is lensless but which provides a useful reticle to aid the user to properly frame the desired scene. A camera body includes a viewfinder front wall opening. Surrounding the front wall opening, on its interior... | 09/19/2000 |
| 5978145 | Viewfinder optical system A viewfinder optical system has a relay lens system and an eyepiece optical system. The relay lens system refocuses a primary image as a secondary image. The relay lens system consists of a single lens element which has a surface having optical power of d... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5335033 | Lensless camera viewfinder A dual function viewfinder presents to a photographer the frame of a picture being taken by the camera having the viewfinder and enables the photographer to point the camera to the center of the frame. The frame is outlined by the front perimeter of an op... | 08/02/1994 |
| 4893141 | Open frame sight viewfinder An open frame sight viewfinder for a photographic camera is disclosed wherein an aiming or target ring of aiming the camera at a subject to be photographed is positioned forward of a correspondingly shaped viewing aperture to view the subject simultaneous... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4891658 | Open frame sight viewfinder An open frame sight viewfinder for a photographic camera comprises an aiming or target ring positioned forward of a correspondingly shaped viewing aperture. The aiming ring is encircled by a relatively narrow annular zone of light rays, including the extr... | 01/02/1990 |
| 4812863 | Lens-fitted photographic film package A lens-fitted photographic film package having a light-tight film case in which a taking lens, an exposure member and a roll film, with their associated elements, all of which are previously encased therein, is provided with a direct-vision viewfinder com... | 03/14/1989 |
| 4764785 | Viewfinder A viewfinder for indicating substantially how much of a subject an objective lens projects on to the film in a camera comprises a frame for viewing the portion of the subject to be recorded on the film. The frame includes a lattice like arrangement of spa... | 08/16/1988 |
| 4343534 | Simulated camera viewer for video productions This invention is concerned with a device for simulating the view of a television or movie camera to assist the technical picture taker in selecting the size of the frame of the scenes to be viewed. There is a front opening which can be changed by inserti... | 08/10/1982 |
| 4283860 | Lens field of view simulator A lens field of view simulator is provided to allow a photographer to view a desired photographic subject, framed as the subject would be framed viewing it through the field of view provided by a camera with a predetermined focal length lens attached. The... | 08/18/1981 |
