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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7546031 | Lamp bracket to illumination optics assembly interface A lamp bracket and illumination optics assembly interface including at least one bracket engaging member formed on the illumination optics; and a receiving member formed on the lamp bracket corresponding to the bracket engaging member such that the bracket engaging ... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7321471 | Lens barrel and lens system The invention is directed to a lens barrel and a compact lens system incorporating the lens barrel where notches defined in a cam barrel to serve as bolt holes and disengage the studs are reduced in dimensions both along and around the optical axis, thereby ensuring... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7292282 | Digital camera employing multiple light shielding walls A main frame of a camera body has a CMOS image sensor and an eyepiece of an optical finder, and the lens unit popped up from the camera body has a taking lens and an objective lens of the optical finder. Light shielding walls are formed on the main frame, and light ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7286754 | Camera The present invention discloses a camera capable of reducing the size by reducing the range of movement of a view finder driving member which operates interlocked with an image-taking lens barrel. The camera includes an image-taking lens barrel which performs a oper... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280151 | Video camera with a rotatable grip unit A video camera is disclosed which can make photographing without any compulsion. A rotary grip is provided on a side face of a camera body so as to be rotatable relative to the camera body, the camera body having an image pickup device, a camera lens and a circuit b... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7259923 | Lens barrel A lens barrel, including, a moving frame (2) to hold a lens (8), a direct-advance ring (4) provided on an outer periphery of the moving frame and movable relative to the moving frame in an optical direction, a resilient member (6) provide... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7229223 | Rotation transfer mechanism and a zoom camera incorporating the rotation transfer mechanism A rotation transfer mechanism includes a rotatable ring and has a circumferential gear formed on a peripheral surface of the rotatable ring, and a rotation transfer gear, wherein rotation of the rotatable ring is transferred to the rotation transfer gear via engagem... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7224395 | Camera having a shutter to cut reverse-incident light from the eyepiece lens A camera comprises a beam splitter configured to divide an incident light from a subject through a photographing lens, an eyepiece lens configured to observe the incident light divided by the beam splitter with a viewfinder, a relay lens provided between the beam sp... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7133571 | Automated cropping of electronic images The present invention relates to the automated and semi-automated cropping of electronic images, and in particular to an apparatus and a method of using an electronic camera to capture and crop such electronic images. An electronic imaging processing device (1 | 11/07/2006 |
| 7120355 | Camera assembly having lens turret and independently movable rocker A camera assembly has a mount defining an optical axis. The mount has opposed first and second stops. A rocker pivots between the stops. An over-center mechanism biases the rocker toward the nearer stop. A lens turret has primary and secondary openings. The lens tur... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7116901 | Zoom finder drive mechanisms A zoom finder drive mechanism, driven only when taking a picture. When a lens barrel is in a collapsed position, the cam-follower pin of a rotary barrel does not abut at an end of a protrusion of a finder cam barrel such that a first and second movable finder lenses... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7099573 | Zoom lens camera, and a rotation transfer mechanism A zoom lens camera includes an optical-element drive mechanism for a photographing optical system, and a zooming-associating mechanism for associating a zooming-associated driven member with a zooming operation to be driven by the optical-element drive mechanism in ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7072122 | Lens apparatus, projection type optical apparatus and projection type image display apparatus An optical apparatus according to the present invention has a plurality of lens units which can move in the direction of an optical axis, each of the lens units has a cam follower, a guide member which guides the each lens unit in the direction of the optical axis, ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7035477 | Image composition evaluation A method of providing composition evaluation of an image includes analyzing a composed image in accordance with one or more predefined composition rules and providing a report or warning signal if one or more of those compositional rules have been contravened. The a... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7019916 | Lens apparatus, projection type optical apparatus and projection type image display apparatus An optical apparatus according to the present invention has a plurality of lens units which can move in the direction of an optical axis, each of the lens units has a cam follower, a guide member which guides the each lens unit in the direction of the optical axis, ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6975358 | Dual channel imaging device An imaging device may include two channels, for example each with different magnification or fields of view as two examples. The user may select one of the channels and the image captured through that channel may be both viewed through a viewfinder and recorded on a... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6973261 | Camera A camera can reduce the size of the camera. The camera comprises a lens barrel which allows the focal length of an image-taking optical system to be changed, a view finder unit for observing an object image, a cam member having a cam for driving the view finder unit... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6954588 | Camera A camera can reduce thickness of a driving member in the diameter direction is disclosed. The camera comprises an actuator, a driven unit and a driving member that rotates around the image-taking optical axis by the driving force from the actuator and transmits the ... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6947667 | Camera The present invention discloses a camera capable of reducing the size by reducing the range of movement of a view finder driving member which operates interlocked with an image-taking lens barrel. The camera includes an image-taking lens barrel which performs a oper... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6937817 | Camera including cam member for interlocking image-taking optical system and view finder optical system of the camera A camera which causes a lens unit to move accurately through a cam member is disclosed. The camera comprises a lens unit with movable lenses making up a view finder optical system, a cam member having a cam which engages with the lens unit for driving the lens unit ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6930719 | Lens unit structure for SLR digital camera A lens unit structure for an SLR digital camera is provided with a photographing lens block and a finder block. The photographing lens block includes a lens barrel having a pair of guide shafts extending in parallel with an optical axis. Ends of the guide shafts are... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6856763 | Deployment apparatus for cameras and other hand-held devices and deployment method A hand-held device has a body and a deployable component mounted to the body. The deployable component is movable, with a deployment method, between undeployed and deployed positions. A drive unit is disposed within the body and engages the deployable component. The... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6788454 | Viewing apparatus having a photographic function A viewing apparatus with a photographing function, includes a viewing optical system by which an image of an object, formed by a positive objective optical system, is viewed though a positive eyepiece optical system, and a photographing optical system which is provi... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6760546 | Viewfinder mounting structure for camera A viewfinder assembly mounting system includes a mounting hole formed at least in one of a camera body and a base barrel in a direction of an optical axis, a viewfinder assembly provided with a guide hole corresponding to the mounting hole of the base barrel; and a ... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6647207 | Parallax correction for close focus A parallax compensation system and method is provided for a camera including an independent viewfinder. For close focus pictures, the camera's taking lens is shifted towards the viewfinder. In one embodiment, for far focus pictures the camera's taking len... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6643459 | Electronic camera An electronic camera includes: a substantially rectangular parallelepiped image-capturing unit main body provided with an image-capturing device for generating an image signal by capturing an optical image formed by a photographic lens unit; a substantial... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6600877 | Zoom interlocking mechanism for camera A cam plate is disposed horizontally and movably to a horizontal direction inside a camera body. The cam plate includes a plate portion for moving variator lenses of a zoom finder device in cooperation with a zoom lens to vary a viewable field angle of a ... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6571059 | Camera including a device for controlling the photographing optical systems to prevent obscuring of an image in the finder optical system An improved camera includes a photographing optical system and a finder optical system, existing independently from each other. In order that a finder observation image will not be obstructed by a camera lens, the camera comprises a driving circuit for re... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6546201 | Finder drive mechanism and camera In a camera to which the finder drive mechanism of the invention is applied, a lens barrel is driven by a drive motor through a zoom drive gear train and a lens frame drive gear train, and the finder variable power of a finder optical system is moved forw... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6510006 | Image-forming optical system A high-performance image-forming optical system made compact and thin by folding an optical path using reflecting surfaces arranged to minimize the number of reflections. The image-forming optical system has a single prism. When image-side three surfaces ... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6415109 | Camera and method of manufacturing camera A camera of this invention incorporates a finder unit capable of changing its magnification corresponding to any one of plural zoom lens barrels (first, second lens barrels) each having different zoom range. When installing the finder unit, first, a posit... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6381412 | Camera A camera capable of switching two kinds of photographing modes, the normal photographing mode and the trimming-photographing mode capable of telephotographing in pseudo, and switching the photographing mode in an arbitrary position. A viewfinder cam for c... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6304727 | Viewfinder and camera having a viewfinder In a viewfinder having objective lens elements G1 to G4 and performing zooming by driving the objective lens elements G2 and G3 in the direction of the optical axis x, a finder cam 6 is provided that interlocks with an axially movable barrel 9 through a p... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6275657 | Dual image coincidence type finder system Disclosed is a dual image coincidence type finder system for a camera. Within a finder field, a dual image composed of superimposed two images is formed. A light deflecting system is provided to change degree of relative displacement between the superimpo... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6185375 | Finder mechanism and drive mechanism for use in camera A zoom lens barrel in a camera is driven by a drive motor via a zoom drive gear train and a lens barrel gear train. A finder optical system, which is interlocked with the zoom lens barrel, is driven by the drive motor through the zoom drive gear train, a ... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6094535 | Zoom lens drive system for lens shutter type of camera A zoom lens for a camera having a between-the-lens shutter includes a motor for moving the lens along an optical axis in forward and rearward directions. A switch is operable by an operator to control operation of the motor for moving the lens from an ini... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6088538 | Zoom finder A zoom finder includes a finder optical system in which at least one lens group is moveable in the optical axis direction thereof to perform the zooming operation; a guide shaft which extends in parallel with the optical axis; a lens mount member which su... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6088536 | Distance measuring apparatus There is provided a distance measuring apparatus in a lens-shutter type camera provided with a photographic lens, a focal length of the photographic lens being variable. The distance measuring device includes: a pair of image forming lenses each forming a... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6041186 | Finder system A finder system including a first optical system and a second optical system apart from the first optical system by a certain base length. Based on an object distance obtained with use of an active or passive distance measuring device, degree of coinciden... | 03/21/2000 |
| 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 |
