摘要:
To accurately check a battery of a camera, a battery checking operation must be performed under maximum load current, namely, the load current of a shutter release magnet or the like. The invention avoids the effect of a current through the magnet triggering a photographic operation of the camera during a battery check by having currents flow to a plurality of selected loads of the camera, such as light emitting diodes, etc., instead of through the magnet. The plurality of loads are preselected to draw the total sum of load currents nearly equal to the maximum load current. A battery check can be performed without applying a drive current to the largest load and yet the accuracy of the battery check thus obtained equals that of the accuracy obtainable with the largest load.
摘要:
The present invention relates to auto-focus devices for cameras. In the camera having an auto-focus device, initiation of exposure is deferred pending termination of a distance adjusting operation by the auto-focus device. The aforesaid sequence assures that distance adjusting is completed before the exposure starts, provided that operation is normal. But when the distance adjusting operation is not motivated, it results not only in an exposure not starting, but also in current flow to the auto-focus circuit being retained and thus electrical energy is wastefully consumed. The present invention has been made by consideration of this point. When the auto-focus device does not complete a distance adjusting operation in a prescribed time, the actuation of the auto-focus device stops, thus preventing wasteful consumption of electrical energy.
摘要:
The present invention relates to an aperture stop-down confirmation device for a camera. So far, in order to carry out the aperture stop-down operation for confirming the depth of focus before photographing in the case of a camera having a mechanical diaphragm device, it is necessary to drive the diaphragm member against the strength of the charge spring of the diaphragm device so that considerable strength is needed for carrying out the diaphragm closing, which is inconvenient. In accordance with the present invention, a diaphragm device whose aperture is controlled by means of an electrical signal such as a diaphragm device making use of a property of matter is so designed that the light admitting part and the light shading part are constituted by varying the light transmittance. The aperture is constituted with the light admitting part or an electromagnetic diaphragm device is used while an aperture stop-down confirmation switch is provided in such a manner that an electrical signal is applied to the diaphragm device by means of the switch so as to carry out the diaphragm closing in order to eliminate the above-mentioned shortcomings.
摘要:
A liquid crystal cell of elongated shape adapted to be arranged at one side of the field of view of the camera finder has a plurality of opposing of transparent electrodes on opposite sides of a liquid crystal layer which are aligned to each other in a matrix form, whereby the necessary number of leads is reduced. In order for the liquid crystal layer to present an indication in a selected area, or areas, an alternating voltage is applied across the correspondingly aligned electrodes, while still preventing the above-identified alternating voltage to appear at two or more electrodes in one set simultaneously even when light is blocked in the two separated areas of the liquid crystal layer. In other words, the number of those of the plurality of electrodes in set to which the alternating voltage is applied at a time depending upon the exposure value is limited always to only one even when two separated areas are selected for light shuttering at a time. Thus, the exposure values or shutter times can be indicated in half-steps increments.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a liquid crystal cell having a plural number of electrode pairs arranged on both sides of the liquid crystal matter so as to be opposed to each other, being characterized in that a pulse wave generating device for generating the first pulse wave with smaller amplitude than the threshold value for lighting the liquid crystal and the second pulse wave with larger amplitude than the threshold value for lighting the liquid crystal in reversed phase to each other and a gate device for selectively applying the outputs of the pulse wave generating device to each electrode of the liquid crystal cell in accordance with the input signal are provided. Thus, only the voltage between the selecting electrodes is higher than the threshold value. An input change over device is provided so as to change over the input signal group in a time dividing way in such a manner that a plural number of dots can be displayed visually at the same time. As a result, the wiring is simplified.
摘要:
In the disclosed folding camera, a built-in flash is disabled and displaced into an inoperative position within the regular contours of the camera housing when the housing is folded. When the housing is extended, the flash may be set either in an operative enabled position outside the regular housing contours or in the inoperative disabled position within the contours.
摘要:
A camera wherein a front housing which contains a photographing optical system, an exposure device, etc. is connected by a foldable connecting device such as a bellows or the like to a rear housing which contains a photosensitive material to be exposed to light, a view finder optical system, etc. During photographing, the foldable connecting device is stretched to adjust the distance between the front and rear housings to a distance suitable for photographing. When the camera is not in use, the connecting device is contracted to being the front and rear housings very close to each other. An electrical wiring arrangement of a flexible material is either provided on the surface of the bellows or formed together with the bellows as an integral part of the bellows when it is formed in such a way as to be stretchable and contractable together with the bellows, the wiring service to electrically connect the components disposed in the front housing to those disposed in the rear housing. In our embodiment, a main switch disposed in the rear housing is operable from a switch control device in the front housing when the bellows is fully expanded.
摘要:
An image processing apparatus including: a color mode selection receiving unit configured to receive a selection of a color mode used for printing or displaying; a color selection receiving unit configured to receive a selection of a color used for printing or displaying; a color conversion palette generation unit configured to generate a color conversion palette based on the selected color mode and the selected color, the color conversion palette being used for converting original data to be printed or displayed into colors used for printing or displaying; and a color conversion unit configured to convert the original data to be printed or displayed into output data using the color conversion palette when performing printing or displaying.
摘要:
A controller determines whether an optical disk has been formatted (S1), formats the optical disk by recording a lead-in area in the recording area of the optical disc if the optical disk has not yet been formatted (S2), records content data in a contents area of the optical disk, and at the same time stores data that may be used as index information separately from the content data being recorded (S3). When a recording stop command is issued, the index information is generated (S6), a file system is recorded so that the content data and the index information can be recognized by other apparatuses, an anchor point is recorded, a temporary lead-out area is recorded, and the process is ended.
摘要:
A camera comprising the following components is disclosed:a vibrating motor which drives a focus lens of an image-taking optical system, anda control circuit which controls the vibrating type motor to repeatedly drive and stop the focus lens, extracting higher frequency components from an image signal obtained from an image pickup device in each stopped state of the focus lens, and performing focus adjusting operation of moving the focus lens to an in-focus position in accordance with a focus adjustment state of the image-taking optical system determined on the basis of the higher frequency components.The control circuit causes traveling wave vibration to be generated on the vibrating member of the vibrating type motor when the focus lens is driven and causes standing wave vibration to be generated on the vibrating member while the focus lens is stopped during the focus adjusting operation.