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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7290947 | Light controller and image pickup device including the same A light controller includes a substrate having an optical path opening, a blade unit with a blade mounted on the substrate for opening and closing the optical path opening, a driver unit for driving the blade, and a stopper unit for restricting a movement of the bla... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7136099 | Electronic camera including enhanced functionality to change length-to-breadth ratios of captured images The digital camera 1, when a length-direction range expanding button 14 or a breadth-direction range expanding button 15 is operated, changes the length-direction and breadth-direction image pickup effective ranges of a solid state image pickup ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136096 | Image processing method and apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium This invention has as its object to provide a convenient image processing apparatus which does not limit image sensing purposes. To achieve this object, an image processing apparatus has a recording medium for recording and playing back an image sensed by an image s... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7083291 | Glare shield for camera A glare shield for the viewfinder of a video camera or the LCD screen of a video or digital camera is comprised of a hood that casts a shadow upon the viewfinder eyepiece or LCD screen to reduce the amount of ambient light falling upon the viewfinder eyepiece or LCD... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7049853 | Resetable control circuit devices for sense amplifiers A device to control a sense amplifier comprise a resetable control circuit containing a first input, a second input, a third input, and an output; the first input coupled to the output or to a ground; the second input coupled to receive a start signal; the third inp... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7006764 | User interface for controlling cropping in electronic camera A camera adjusts the aspect ratio of a viewfinder image. The camera has a body and a capture unit mounted in the body. The capture unit has an imager and storage media operatively connected to the imager. The capture unit selectively captures an electronic image of ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6954586 | Camera frame assembly having shutter actuator with telescoping striker and method A camera frame assembly has a frame and a driver mounted to the frame. The driver is rapidly movable relative to the frame from a charged position to a discharged position. A first striker member is joined in fixed relation to the driver. A second striker member tel... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6907194 | Camera having continuously cropping viewfinder A camera and method provide image cropping. The camera has a body and a capture unit mounted in the body. The capture unit has an imager and storage media operatively connected to the imager. The capture unit selectively captures an electronic image of a scene. A vi... | 06/14/2005 |
| RE38541 | Camera equipped with data imprinting device A camera with a data imprinting device includes a generally triangular space adjacent a film spool. A roller, used to conform the film to the film spool is urged into the triangular space when the film diameter on the roller approaches a maximum diameter. A portion ... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6615000 | Camera having operation member on rear cover thereof, variable picture size camera and picture size switching mechanism, and click stop mechanism A picture size switching mechanism for a variable picture size camera includes a stationary standard picture plane forming member and a pair of light interception frames having light interception portions which can obstruct upper and lower edges of the st... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6477333 | Image frame changing apparatus for camera A view frame changing apparatus of the present invention is constructed in which cam grooves formed at view frame pieces are arched by the predetermined curvature; thus the cam pins can smoothly slide over the entire area of the sliding area of the cam gr... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6438324 | Multi-autofocus distance-measuring system with a wide distance-measuring area A pair of integration-type light-receiving sensors receive the light from subjects via a taking optical system and produce a subject image signal. A light projecting section projects light onto the subjects. A steady-state light removing section obtains a... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6347190 | Display device of an optical apparatus A camera has a finder device. A liquid crystal element is arranged in the finder device and has an image area and at least one of an index area indicating an image range and an index area indicating information relating to photographing. A control circuit... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6327440 | Camera A camera capable of taking pictures selectively in a standard or full size frame and a panorama frame having a reduced vertical dimension. This camera includes vertically movable light-shielding members for partly light-shielding an exposure range of the ... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6205296 | Film information writing device, film information reading device and film information handling device The present invention provides a device and method for enabling the writing of a print format and a trimming magnification onto a film surface using a simple construction. Film information comprising a print format set using a format setting switch 10 and... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6181881 | Field-of-view frame switching device A field-of-view frame switching device has a rectangular fixed field-of-view frame and a plurality of light-shielding members for covering portions of the rectangular fixed field-of-view frame so as to vary the size of the actual field-of-view frame. The ... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6173124 | Photographic camera system A photographic camera system includes a photographic camera that can successively expose a photographic film in different frame sizes and an automatic printer for automatically printing the processed photographic film exposed with those different frame si... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6151456 | Photographic camera system A photographic camera system includes a photographic camera that can successively expose a photographic film in different frame sizes and an automatic printer for automatically printing the processed photographic film exposed with those different frame si... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6064834 | Exposure and view finder orientation switching mechanism for a camera When a switching lever is positioned for horizontal photographing, an exposure frame composed of two switching frames is switched to a horizontal photographing exposure frame. When the switching lever is positioned for vertical photographing, a wheel ring... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6064832 | Camera with print information recording feature A compact camera has a built-in light-emitting display device which displays, as print information, a specific code. The specific code includes alphabetical characters when a print information set switch is operated. The device is alternatively allowed to... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6041191 | Photographic camera system A photographic camera system includes a photographic camera that can successively expose a photographic film in different frame sizes and an automatic printer for automatically printing the processed photographic film exposed with those different frame si... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6035146 | Film transport in camera capable of switching picture size A light shielding member is composed of plural light shielding plates which increase and decrease an opening area by shielding an exposure opening at least partially, and at least two light shielding plates overlap each other to move from the exposure ope... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5970260 | Camera equipped with zoom lens In a camera equipped with a zoom lens for forming an image of an object onto a film surface, the camera is equipped with a front lens group composed of a first lens group, adjustable aperture blades, a second lens group, and a second lens group-holding me... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5970267 | Apparatus for switching visual field frame of view finder, operation apparatus therefor, and apparatus for acturating rotary operation member having neutral position A field frame switching apparatus for a finder in which an elongated standard visual field, a narrow-width visual field and a laterally-elongated visual field can be selected. A pair of narrow-width visual-field-forming light-interception frames are provi... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5966553 | Still camera A still camera is provided with an area image sensor for obtaining digital image data, an LCD viewfinder, components for photographing image frames on a photo filmstrip in response to a shutter release operation, and a memory for storing the image data. T... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5960223 | Imaging field changing apparatus In an imaging field changing apparatus capable of changing three or more imaging fields having different aspect ratios, a changing order can be set such that one of two imaging fields having largest rate of change in aspect ratios during imaging field cha... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5950019 | Zoom lens camera A zoom lens camera includes an image size varying frame to switch the image size between a standard image plane and a laterally elongated image plane, a linear movement barrel, an FPC board which connects a shutter unit and a controller, and a light-inter... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5946510 | Albada type finder and camera therefor having a movable mask In an Albada type finder 10 applied to a camera capable of photographing either the full size or the panoramic size, when the panoramic size is specified with a change-over switch 24, a lever 58 rotates clockwise around a pin 70, and then a lever 60 is pu... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5943518 | Voltage control device A voltage control device provided in an electro-developing type camera using an electro-developing recording medium by which an image is electronically developed. A first control electrode is provided on a portion corresponding to a first surface of the e... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5911089 | Aperture size changing apparatus for a camera An aperture size changing apparatus for a camera includes a camera body, a photographing lens to be mounted to the camera body, and a pair of light intercepting blades for defining an aperture through which light is incident on a recording medium and whic... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5774754 | Camera capable of previewing a photographed image A camera includes a photographic recording device which records an image of an object on a photosensitive recording medium; an image pick-up device which picks up an image of the object to generate an image signal; a display device which displays a monito... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5758215 | Photographic camera system A photographic camera system includes a photographic camera that can successively expose a photographic film in different frame sizes and an automatic printer for automatically printing the processed photographic film exposed with those different frame si... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5754899 | Camera capable of taking pictures in both standard frame and panoramic frame A camera capable of taking pictures selectively in a standard or full size frame and a panorama frame having a reduced vertical dimension. This camera includes vertically movable light-shielding members for partly light-shielding an exposure range of the ... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5751400 | Conversion system for a camera The conversion system for a camera employs a conversion lever disposed at the outer side of a camera body to select a given photographic mode without need to open the camera. The conversion lever is used to shift a cam plate which is located within the ca... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5752116 | Camera having a screen adjustment frame A camera includes a cartridge mounting chamber, a film take-up chamber, a photographing unit provided between the cartridge mounting chamber and the film take-up chamber. The photographing unit includes a lens housing having a front housing portion holdin... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749012 | Camera A camera arranged to permit photographing by taking full advantage of a spurious telephoto shooting function irrespective of the current state of facilities of photofinishing laboratories is provided with an image plane frame change-over mechanism which a... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5742854 | Photographic camera A photographic camera successively exposes a photographic film in different frame sizes, so that the processed photographic film exposed with those different frame sizes can be automatically printed. The camera varies the length and width of an exposure o... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5732297 | Camera A camera for setting the aspect ratio of a photographic image plane and recording information of the set aspect ratio has a full-size frame defining a full-size finder image plane corresponding to a photographing image plane, a vertical mask for vertical ... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5732301 | Camera having variable-sized image plane and image plane size indicator A camera is capable of forming different photographic image plane frames by causing a light blocking member which is movable in at least a photographic optical path to block part of a photographic light flux. The camera is provided with an urging member f... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5727245 | Camera A camera having: a viewfinder optical system including a stationary objective lens, first and second prisms, a stationary eyepiece lens, and first and second variable-power lenses, that advance or withdraw in the optical-axis direction responsive to zoomi... | 03/10/1998 |
