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Remote-control device for digital camera

Patent 7477293 Issued on January 13, 2009. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject January 18, 2025. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventor

Assignee

Application

No. 11035963 filed on 01/18/2005

US Classes:

348/211.99Remote control

Examiners

Primary: Ho, Tuan
Assistant: Prabhakher, Pritham

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Foreign Patent References

  • 2002-094867 JP 03/01/2002

International Classes

H04N 5/225
H04N 9/04
H04N 5/232

Abstract

A remote-control device controls a digital camera, to make the digital camera perform a particular photographing operation having a continuous photographing operation or a bulb photographing operation. The remote-control device may be a personal computer. A start-command generating processor generates a start-command for starting the particular photographing operation, by depressing a switch, which may be a button of a mouse for the personal computer. An end-command generating processor generates an end-command for ending the particular photographing operation, by releasing the switch.

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