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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7493030 | Adaptive optical plane formation with rolling shutter A scene is imaged by moving an optical lens relative to an image sensing surface (such as film or a pixel array) synchronously with exposing different portions of the image sensing surface. The synchronous actions are preferably adaptable to the scene being imaged, ... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7412158 | Deeper depth of field for video A digital camera apparatus has a sensing surface that captures images at a first resolution. A derivative of the captured image is displayed at a viewfinder or stored in a memory, after encoding, with a second, generally lower resolution. The resolutions are related... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7372498 | Image pickup apparatus having a shutter clutch In an image pickup apparatus having an openable and closable shutter mechanism to protect an image pickup lens portion of a ultra-small and light-weight video camera, the shutter mechanism is composed of a drive mechanism 34 including an output shaft rotated ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7352387 | Camera with positioning device used to capture magnified and demagnified images To provide a camera that is suited to shoot both a demagnified image and a magnified image. The camera includes a housing body 11 containing a CCD 15, and a lens barrel 12. An abutted member 20 having an objective lens 40 th... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7330213 | Camera for shooting demagnified and magnified images A camera for shooting both a demagnified image and a magnifed image. In an embodiment, the camera includes a housing body containing a CCD, and a lens barrel. An abutted member having an objective lens therein is engaged with the lens barrel and a rotatable manually... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7262798 | System and method for simulating fill flash in photography A digital camera simulates the use of fill flash. The camera takes a series of photographs of a scene at various focus distances. The photographs are stored, along with their corresponding focus distances. The photographs are analyzed to determine the distance to ob... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7161748 | Zoom lens barrel and optical equipment For the purpose of miniaturizing a zoom lens barrel, a zoom lens of the present invention comprises one lens group which moves at the time of variable power, one diaphragm member which moves at the time of variable power, and a cam member which has a cam section for... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158318 | Flare stoppper and taking lens unit A ring-shaped flare stopper is made of a phosphor bronze plate having a thickness of 0.03 mm by sheet metal stamping. An inner periphery for defining a circular opening is formed in the flare stopper. The inner periphery has the form of the side face of a circular t... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7119968 | AF control apparatus An AF control apparatus includes a plurality of movable lens groups, each of which is movable along an optical axis for performing focusing independently, and a driving system for moving each of the movable lens groups. A moving path of each of the movable lens grou... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7116492 | Imaging apparatus A lens-controlling device controls a first lens unit which moves for zooming and a second lens unit which moves for correcting the displacement of an image plane caused by zooming and for focusing. The lens-controlling device includes a memory which stores data for ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7016122 | Imaging apparatus A lens-controlling device controls a first lens unit which moves for zooming and a second lens unit which moves for correcting the displacement of an image plane caused by zooming and for focusing. The lens-controlling device includes a memory which stores data for ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6952291 | Imaging device An imaging device according to the present invention has: a photometric circuit that detects a brightness of a photographic subject based on a light flux from the photographic subject that passes through a photographic lens; an exposure calculation circuit that calc... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6792203 | Camera and distance measuring apparatus used in the same In a camera a pickup element images an object image. An A/D converter A/D converts an output of the pickup element. A processing section includes a night scene judging section for judging whether or not the scene to be photographed is the night scene on the basis of... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6771897 | Lens barrel and camera The present invention discloses a lens apparatus that can switch the aperture diameter of the light-blocking member using a body structural member constituting a portion of the lens apparatus. The lens apparatus includes a lens unit that is moved in a direction of a... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6532060 | Distance measuring apparatus A distance measuring apparatus has: an AF optical system for dividing object light beams into a pair thereof and forming images and; an AFIC for photoelectrically converting received object optical images in pixels, accumulating charges, and outputting ob... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6442343 | Exposure control device for camera A first stop plate with a small stop opening is disposed behind a taking lens, and a second stop plate with a middle stop opening is disposed between a first and second lens, which comprise the taking lens. Upon moving a changeover knob to an ON position,... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6389229 | Optical fstop/resolution apparatus and method for specified depth-of-field A method and apparatus to determine the fstop that provides optimal image resolution for a predetermined depth-of-field. An approximate and exact method and apparatus are provided to determine the optimal resolution fstop. The optima... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6385399 | Optical apparatus and shooting system including zoom function having electrical operation mode and other mode An optical apparatus includes a first movable optical member, a second movable optical member, different from the first optical member, and a driving mechanism engaged with the second optical member, and operable in a first operation mode, in which the se... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6167200 | Exposure operation mechanism of camera A mechanism, of a camera, to let an exposure operation be performed with a higher precision in a shorter time. The mechanism includes: a first device for taking an image of a region to be photographed and for outputting image information; a second device ... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6137958 | Camera In a camera having a camera body part and a lens barrel part, an optical filter arranged to be rotatable around an axis located inside a lens optical path derived from the lens barrel part (for example, around an axis substantially parallel with an optica... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6101333 | Method and apparatus for acquiring electronic and/or photographic images A method and apparatus are disclosed whereby generally matched exposures for at least first and second photoresponsive materials generally concurrently can be obtained, wherein the first photoresponsive material is more photoresponsive than the second.... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6091903 | Macro lens system A macro lens system includes a positive first lens group, an aperture and a negative second lens group arranged in the order from an object side. The lens groups are driven to move along an optical axis for focusing. When the lens groups are driven, a ful... | 07/18/2000 |
| 5987265 | Photometry device of camera A photometry device of a camera has a photometry circuit which measures the luminance value of the object field, a colorimetry circuit which measures the color balance of the object field, and a scene discrimination unit which discriminates the scene on t... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5960217 | Wide range focusing camera In a wide range focusing camera, a cooperating engagement members are provided in moveable parts of a focusing mechanism and an aperture opening selecting mechanism so as to force the latter into selecting a smaller one of the aperture opening areas when ... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5926287 | Imaging device An imaging device according to the present invention has: a photometric circuit that detects a brightness of a photographic subject based on a light flux from the photographic subject that passes through a photographic lens; an exposure calculation circui... | 07/20/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5771408 | Fixed focus camera shooting hyperfocal distance A fixed focus camera is arranged to shorten the minimum object distance for shooting by moving a lens section to a hyperfocal distance position. The camera is arranged to mount the objective lens system and the diaphragm member on the same tube, the lens ... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5710948 | Camera system with color temperature meter A camera is equipped with an integral color temperature measurement mechanism. The color temperature measurement mechanism measures the color temperature of the light source illuminating the subject field and a display mechanism displays the color tempera... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5625430 | 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... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5602614 | Camera A camera includes a distance detecting device arranged to detect a distance from the camera to an object to be photographed and to output distance information, a flash amount deciding part arranged to decide an amount of flash emission on the basis of the... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5486894 | Camera with exposure control interlocked with lens movement A camera comprising an exposure control circuit for controlling the exposure in accordance with the output of a light measuring circuit receptive of light at a different position from that of a photographic lens system, a distance detecting circuit for au... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5485236 | Camera A camera is provided with an object distance measuring sensor for detecting an object distance, an object brightness measuring sensor for detecting an object brightness, a photographing lens, a position of which along an optical axis is variably set, and ... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5473404 | Zoom camera having electronic exposure control A photographic camera for taking photographs of a scene having a film speed determining system, an electronically controllable picture taking lens that can be positioned to a plurality of lens focal lengths, a lens selection system for operation by the ca... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5030979 | Electronically controlled camera An electronically controlled camera which is controllable by an external control unit connected to terminals provided on a camera body. The terminals are connected to signal lines arranged between more than one control unit built in the camera body. One s... | 07/09/1991 |
| 4632542 | Exposure control system having dual mode photodetector An exposure control system for a photographic camera of the type employing a scanning type shutter, a controllable source of artificial illumination and a photodetector for sensing scene brightness levels both prior to and during film exposure preferably ... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4367932 | Exposure control system An exposure control system includes a device for measuring an intensity of the ambient light, three controllers for controlling three factors of exposure time, aperture size and amount of flash light to be emitted, and a device for setting three pieces of... | 01/11/1983 |
| 4316658 | Camera for close-up and normal range photography A camera, operable in flash and ambient exposure modes, has adjustable lens apparatus useful for close-up and normal range photography. A photoconductively controlled electromagnet, which is energized in accordance with the intensity of ambient light, con... | 02/23/1982 |
| 4285585 | Exposure control compensating means for close-up photography In an automatic exposure control camera in which exposure is controlled based on an output of an arithmetic unit, the F-value information of the taking lens of the camera in the arithmetic unit is compensated by use of a distance information from a distan... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4274725 | Depth of field objective The present invention relates to an objective for still cameras and motion picture cameras into which the critical focusing values of the two boundary points of a selected depth of field range are fed without being examined, whereupon the lenses and the d... | 06/23/1981 |
| 4227791 | Lens barrel for flash photography A lens barrel in which a distance ring is coupled to an aperture ring so that correct exposure can be obtained in flash photography. In the arrangement, a rotating member, which rotates integrally with the aperture ring, and the distance ring can rotate f... | 10/14/1980 |
