Abstract:
A distance-measuring apparatus for a camera comprises an area sensor, an integration circuit, and a switching circuit. The above-mentioned area sensor receives light of a picture image in the image plane. The integration circuit integrates output signals of this area sensor. The control circuit controls operations of starting and stopping the integration of the above-mentioned integration circuit, based on output signals corresponding to a specific block of the above-mentioned area sensor. The switching circuit switches the above-mentioned specific block according to using state of the camera.
Abstract:
A camera with a distance measuring apparatus has distance measuring functions by means of an active system and a passive system to allow good distance measurement with respect to an object in a wide variety of conditions. The camera includes a first signal forming unit, a second signal forming unit, a release detecting unit, an object condition detecting unit and a selective control unit. The first signal forming unit projects light distance measurement light from a light projecting unit, receives a reflection signal of the distance measurement light from the object at a light receiving unit and forms a focusing signal for the object. The second signal forming unit monitors the luminance distribution state of the object using an image signal detecting unit and forms a focusing signal for the object. The release detecting unit detects whether or not a release operating member is operated. The object condition detecting unit detects an object condition based on a signal obtained by actuating either the first signal forming unit or the second signal forming unit before the operation of the release operating member. The selective control unit selectively controls either the first signal forming unit or the second signal forming unit based on the detection result of the object condition detecting unit if the release detecting unit detects the operation of the release operating member.
Abstract:
An AF section receives a reflected light beam from the subject. A CPU calculates a distance to the subject based on an output of the AF section. An underwater detecting section optically determines that the camera lies in the water. A transparency detecting section evaluates the degree of muddiness of the surrounding water when the camera lies in the water. A focusing section sets the focusing position of the photographing lens of the camera based on an output of the CPU and an output of the transparency detecting section when the underwater detecting section has determined that the camera lies in the water.
Abstract:
An electronic flash illuminates an object. A first photometric unit measures a visible light component of ambient light of the object. A second photometric unit measures an infrared light component of the ambient light of the object. A determining unit determines the ratio between the visible light component measured by the first photometric unit and the infrared light component measured by the second photometric unit. On the basis of the ratio determined by the determining unit, a light emission determining unit determines whether the electronic flash is to be made emit light.
Abstract:
An automatic focusing camera includes a first distance measurement circuit for measuring a first distance to an object located at a central portion of a frame, a second distance measurement circuit for measuring a plurality of second distances to other objects located at a peripheral portion of the frame, a CPU for comparing the first and second distance with a shortest photographing distance of the camera, for, when the first distance is shorter than the shortest photographing distance, selecting the shortest photographing distance as an object distance regardless of the second distance, for, when the first distance is not shorter than the shortest photographing distance and the second distance is shorter than the shortest photographing distance, selecting the first distance as the object distance, and for, when the first and second distances are not shorter than the shortest photographing distance, selecting a shorter one of the first and second distances as the object distance, and a mechanism for focusing a photographing lens on the basis of the object distance selected by the CPU.
Abstract:
A film processing device contains a film feed unit, a film developing unit, a film drying unit, and a film winding unit. The drying unit and the winding unit are integrally structured, and the feed unit, developing unit, and the drying/winding unit are independently arranged in the casing and are independently detachable. The film processing device can be further provided with an upper cover having processing rollers attached thereto, which is vertically movable with respect to the casing so that the rollers are dipped into the developing and washing liquids when the upper cover is lowered.
Abstract:
A camera includes: a shooting section that outputs images of an object; a moving image shooting control section that controls the shooting section to repeat shooting under predetermined shooting conditions at a predetermined frame rate; a moving image generation section that generates moving images based on images shot under the predetermined shooting conditions, respectively; an image extraction section that extracts a first image and a second image based on a predetermined condition from each of the moving images; a display section; and a display control section that performs control to simultaneously multi-display the first image and the second image of each moving image on the display section.
Abstract:
An imaging device includes an imaging unit that images a subject and that continuously creates image data on the subject; a display unit that chronologically displays live view images associated with the image data created by the imaging unit; a face detector that detects the face of a subject included in the live view image; a trimming unit that creates a face image by cutting out, from the live view images, a face area including the face of the subject detected by the face detector; and a display controller that displays the face image created by the trimming unit at a display position specified in a display area of the display unit.
Abstract:
An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit that generates image data of a subject image obtained via a lens unit, a display unit that displays an image corresponding to the image data generated by the imaging unit, an input unit that receives input for specifying an area of a portion of the image displayed by the display unit, and a display controller that controls a display mode for confirming a specified image corresponding to the area of which input is received by the input unit.
Abstract:
Provided is an imaging apparatus including a lens unit having an optical zoom function of collecting light from a subject and optically changing an angle of view, an imaging unit that continuously generates electronic image data using the light collected by the lens unit, an electronic zoom unit that performs electronic zoom by sequentially trimming and enlarging an image corresponding to the image data, a setting unit that sets an enlargement area to be enlarged in the image, a lens manipulation unit that receives a manipulation signal for changing an angle of view, and a control unit that continuously controls, while switching between enlargement of a center of the image by the optical zoom of the lens unit and enlargement of the enlargement area by the electronic zoom of the electronic zoom unit, according to the manipulation signal received by the lens manipulation unit.