Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Akira Katoh

Masatoshi Ida

Yutaka Yunoki

Hisayuki Harada

Yoshio Fukuda

Manabu Inoue

Shinya Takahashi

Akihiko Hashimoto

Hiroyuki Yoshimori

Shinichi Harada

Tatsuo Imamura

Makoto Oishi

Kouichi Shijima

A transducer-to-medium stabilizer assembled with a transducer in a recording and/or reproducing apparatus is disposed in an opposing relationship with a flexible storage disk which is used as an information recording medium. The stabilizer comprises first and second block members which protrude from a base block member and a static pressure releasing arrangement on said stabilizer device. When the flexible storage disk is rotated at a high speed with respect to the stabilizer device, a negative pressure is formed between the stabilizer device and the disk, resulting in that the transducer is maintained in a constant and stable contact relationship with the disk.

Transducer-to-medium stabilizing device having a static pressure

An electronic camera includes three detachable units, a photographing unit, a record/play-back unit and a picture monitor unit. The photographing unit converts an output signal from a camera into a luminance signal and color difference signals. The record/play-back unit records an output signal from the photographing unit on a disk and is capable of reading a signal previously recorded on a disk. The picture monitor unit displays a picture responsive to a signal from the photographing unit or a signal from the record/play-back unit. The aforesaid units are provided with arrays of terminals electrically connected to electrical devices within their unit. A group of unique connectors establish electrical connections between the terminals of two of the one units. The connectors are designed to be coupled between any one of the associated arrays of terminals. One type of connector provides direct electrical connections between terminals of the associated arrays. A second of connector type includes electrical connections similar to those provided in the first connector type and further includes a built-in sync generator for generating a plurality of sync signals, said second connector having terminals for connecting said signals to predetermined ones of the terminals in an array of terminals provided along the housing of a unit. The use of these separate connectors reduces the number of sync generators required for the camera system and eliminates the need to build generators into each camera unit.

Detachable unit electronic camera

A detachable unit electronic camera includes three detachable units, namely, a photographing unit, a record/playback unit and a picture monitor unit. The photographing unit has the function to convert an output signal from a camera into a luminance signal and color difference signals. The record/playback unit has the function of magnetically recording an output signal from the photographing unit on a magnetic disc and also the function of reading a signal which is previously recorded on the magnetic disc. The picture monitor unit has the function of displaying a picture in response to an output signal from the photograping unit or a signal which is reproduced from the record/playback unit. record/playback unit includes switches for selectively coupling external dubbing signals to the magnetic disc or for coupling signals from the record/playback unit to a detachably mounted dubbing unit including a recording medium which may receive dubbing signals from the record/playback unit.

A detachable unit electronic camera includes three detachable units, namely, a photographing unit, a record/playback unit and a picture monitor unit. The photographing unit has the function to convert an output signal from a camera into a luminance signal and color difference signals. The record/playback unit has the function of magnetically recording an output signal from the photographing unit on a magnetic disc and also the function of reading a signal which is previously recorded on the magnetic disc. The picture monitor unit has the function of displaying a picture in response to an output signal from the photographing unit or a signal which is reproduced from the record/playback unit.

An exposure control device for an electronic photographing apparatus comprises a gate circuit, which can transfer a transfer gate driving signal to a transfer gate in synchronism to the horizontal vertical synchronization control of said solid state image sensor, and a shutter driving circuit, which can operate a shutter in synchronism with a transfer gate driving signal first generated after the appearance of a shutter release signal. While the shutter is open, the gate circuit inhibits the transfer gate driving signal.

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Hachioji, Japan

Akira Katoh