Abstract:
Electronic binoculars comprise an imaging unit, and first and second ocular units. The imaging unit has an imaging device that projects an optical image of an object, and converts the optical image to electric signals. The first ocular unit has a first image-indicating device that indicates the object image based on the electric signals in a first image-indicating field. The second ocular unit has a second image-indicating device that indicates the object image based on the electric signals in a second image-indicating field. The first image-indicating field is smaller than a first effective image-indicating area which is the maximum image-indicating area of the first image-indicating device. The second image-indicating field is smaller than a second effective image-indicating area which is the maximum image-indicating area of the second image-indicating device. The respective first and second image-indicating fields can move within the respective first and second effective image-indicating areas.
Abstract:
A flash case, in which a flash is provided, is automatically moved to an up position, when a user selects a flash mode in a state where the flash case is at a down position, when a user begins to forcibly raise the flash case by hand in a state where the flash case is at the down position, or when the flash case is at the down position in a state where a photometric operation starts in an auto-flash mode. The flash case is automatically moved to the down position, when an external force is added to the flash case at the up position.
Abstract:
An adjustment method includes rotating a pair of magnifying glasses in directions opposite to each other using null-rotation, and correcting inclination of an image, caused by the null-rotation, by rotating the pair of magnifying glasses in directions opposite to each other using the null-rotation, given that rotation about each of axes XL and XR, which respectively correspond to visual axes of left and right eyes when an object distance is infinite in a condition of a primary position, is represented by the null-rotation, and that rotation about each of axis YL and YR, which are respectively perpendicular to the axes XL and XR and are also perpendicular to a z-axis which perpendicularly intersects with the axis XL at a position of a deflector for the left eye and the axis XR at a position of the deflector for the right eye, is represented by the null-rotation.
Abstract:
A digital camera has a display processor, a release button, and a button operation detector. The display processor displays an object image on a screen as a moving-image before photographing a still-image. The release button is operated for recording the still-image. The button operation detector, detects the contact of a finger with the release button. The display processor superimposes photograph information on the moving image when the button operation detector detects the contact.
Abstract:
A light emission control system for a flash device includes a plurality of photometering sensors for photometric measurements on different photometering zones; and a controller which outputs a periodic pulsed trigger signal for activating the flash device, and sequentially selects analog signals output from the plurality of photometering sensors to convert the analog signals into digital signals in sequence. The controller outputs the pulsed trigger signal having a predetermined pulse frequency to perform a pre-flash emission operation in which the flash device is activated to discharge intermittently. The controller subsequently converts each analog signal into a corresponding digital signal in sequence in accordance with each trigger pulse of the periodic pulsed trigger signal before performing a main flash emission operation in which the flash device is activated to discharge at a time of exposure.
Abstract:
A component of an endoscope is a flexible tube which is composed of a helical coil, a reticular tube formed of a braided thin wires and provided over the helical coil, and an outer cover provided over the reticular tube. The outer cover is formed of a resin material containing TiNxOy (where, 0.1nullxnull1.0, 0nullynull1.9) which is a color developing agent to be colored when irradiated with laser light. The flexible tube is provided with scale formed by the colored portion. The outer surface the outer cover is black or dark color before the irradiation with laser light, but thus formed scale is white or blight color having a whiteness of 60% or more.
Abstract translation:内窥镜的组件是由螺旋线圈,由编织细线形成的网状管并设置在螺旋线圈上的柔性管,以及设置在网状管上的外罩。 外盖由含有TiNxOy(其中,0.1 <= x <= 1.0,0 <= y <= 1.9)的树脂材料形成,其是当用激光照射时着色的彩色显影剂。 柔性管设有由着色部形成的标尺。 在用激光照射之前,外盖的外表面是黑色或深色,但因此形成的白度或白度为白色或白色的比例为60%以上。
Abstract:
An objective lens for a plurality of types of optical discs is provided with a diffracting structure on at least one surface thereof. The surface includes an inner area including the optical axis and an outer area. The outer area includes at least one special annular zone. Part of a first beam (having a first wavelength for a first optical disc of lower data density) passed through the zone will be substantially in antiphase with part of the first beam passed through the inner area. The convergence angle null of part of the first beam incident on the outermost part of the inner area measured after emerging from the objective lens and a design numerical aperture NAref of the first optical disc satisfy: 1.0
Abstract:
A focus detection device includes line sensors which each photoelectrically convert and integrate light from an object so as to output the received light as an image signal; monitor sensors provided adjacent to the line sensors; a control device which controls an integration operation of a predetermined line sensor and a predetermined monitor sensor; and a detection device which detects that a monitor signal of each of the monitor sensors reaches a predetermined termination value for terminating integration of the corresponding line sensor after the control device allows the predetermined line sensor and monitor sensor to start the integration. The control device outputs a first termination signal from a first control terminal when the detection device detects the monitor signal first reaching the termination value, and thereafter outputs integration termination information of the respective monitor sensors detected sequentially from the first control terminal.
Abstract:
A confocal probe is provided with an optical fiber introducing light having wavelengths within a predetermined wavelength range in the confocal probe, a collimating lens that collimates light emerged from an end surface of the optical fiber, a dispersing prism that receives the light collimated by the collimating lens and disperses the received light in a predetermined direction, light emerged from the dispersing prism and having the same wavelength being kept collimated, and a light converging optical system that converges the light emerged from the dispersing prism on a target (i.e., region of interest).
Abstract:
A retracting mechanism of a zoom lens barrel includes first, second and third lens groups, wherein the first and third lens groups are integrally moved along an optical axis during variation of a focal length, and wherein at least one of the first and third lens groups is moved relative to the other to reduce a distance therebetween when the zoom lens barrel is fully retracted. The retracting mechanism includes first, second and third lens group moving rings; a cam mechanism for independently moving the first and second lens group moving rings; a second lens group support frame; an intermediate member fixed to the second lens group support frame; and a biasing device for biasing the third lens group moving ring away from the first lens group moving ring. The biasing device functions between the intermediate member and the third lens group moving ring.