Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Hideo Tamamura

Mutsuhide Matsuda

Hiroshi Maeno

Toyotosi Suzuki

Chikara Aoshima

Shuichi Tamura

Toru Nagata

Hiroki Nakayama

Isao Harigaya

Michio Yoshida

Masaru Yanagisawa

Tetsuya Taguchi

Hideo Yokota

Takashi Endo

Yukio Ogawa

Tadashi Okino

Akihisa Horiuchi

Jun Makino

Hiroyuki Fukushima

Masaki Higashihara

Hidetoshi Matsuoka

Kazuo Ikawa

Masakazu Taku

Mutsunobu Yazaki

Takashi Matsushita

Motoo Kumagai

Etsuro Suzuki

Hiroyuki Asada

Toru Shoji

Hiroyuki Kasuga

A camera includes an image taking system for taking plural images to be synthesized into a first image for recording use, and an image generator for generating a second image for display use by image-processing a specific image among the plural images.

Camera and image processing method for synthesizing plural images forming one image group to generate a synthesized image

A fuel supply apparatus for supplying fuel to a fuel cell has a fuel supply unit and a water suction unit. When the fuel cell is mounted onto the fuel supply apparatus, the apparatus supplies fuel to the fuel cell and removes the water inside the fuel cell by suction.

Fuel supply apparatus

Fuel cell, fuel supply apparatus therefor, and fuel supply system therefor

An image processing apparatus comprises a detection unit adapted to detect a positional shift of a main object in each of the images, a coordinate converting unit adapted to convert coordinates of each of the images using a detection result of the detection unit, and a correcting unit adapted to correct image exposure by combining the images after coordinate conversion. In combination of the images, images that have fewer positional shifts are selected and combined among images that have been sensed in a number larger than the number of images with correct exposure.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method for producing an image from a plurality of images

A liquid residual quantity detecting method which is capable of accurately detecting the residual quantity of a liquid in an apparatus without being affected by the position of the apparatus, to thereby prevent a user from carelessly or erroneously believing that the liquid still remains. A fuel residual quantity detector detects the residual quantity of a fuel stored in a fuel storage chamberof a fuel cellof a camera. A microcomputerprovides control such that an operation for detecting the residual quantity of the fuel is executed only when the camerais in its normal position.

Liquid residual quantity detecting method, liquid residual quantity detecting device, program for implementing the method, and storage medium storing the program

An image-pickup apparatus, a control method applied to the image-pickup apparatus, and a control program for operating a computer used for the image-pickup apparatus are provided. The image-pickup apparatus comprises an image-pickup element for picking up the images of a subject. The image-pickup element can output image signals for performing finder display and focal-point detection. The image-pickup apparatus further comprises a control device for performing first-image pickup a predetermined number of times for performing the finder display and for performing second-image pickup for performing the focal-point detection every time the first-image pickup is performed the predetermined number of times.

Image-pickup apparatus outputting signals for finder display and signals for focal-point detection, control method applied to the apparatus, and computer readable medium having encoded thereon a program implementing a method using the apparatus

A camera has a cartridge setting chamber in which a film cartridge is set. A fork is rotatably disposed in the cartridge setting chamber and is engagable with a rotary shaft of the film cartridge to feed a film in the film cartridge. A cartridge support member is provided in the cartridge setting chamber in a position opposite to that of the fork and engagable with the rotary shaft of the film cartridge. Consequently the film cartridge is pinched between the cartridge support member and the fork.

Camera with film cartridge alignment feature

A camera includes a fixed first mirror for both reflecting a light flux and transmitting the light flux therethrough, a second mirror for reflecting a part of the light flux transmitted through the first mirror toward a particular device, the second mirror being capable of moving between a non-exposure position and a mirror-retracted position, and a light blocking member movable in interlocked relationship to a movement of the second mirror in such a manner that, when the second mirror is located at the non-exposure position, the light blocking member is located at a light blocking position at which the light blocking member blocks at least a part of the light flux transmitted through the first mirror, and, when the second mirror is retracted to the mirror-retracted position, the light blocking member moves to a retracted position at which the light blocking member is retracted from the light blocking position.

Light blocking apparatus for a camera

A camera provided with a magnetic head for effecting at least one of writing information into a magnetic portion of a film and reading information from the magnetic portion. The camera includes a detection circuit for detecting a feed speed of the film and a prohibiting circuit for prohibiting a photographing operation of the camera when the feed speed of the film detected by the detection circuit is lower than a predetermined speed.

Camera having a magnetic recording apparatus selectively operable based

A camera, which uses a film with a magnetic memory portion, or a control apparatus for such a camera, includes a first detection sensor for detecting a perforation of the film, arranged at a first position where the perforation of the film passes, a second detection sensor for detecting the perforation of the film, arranged at a second position where the perforation of the film passes and which is shifted from the first position in the direction in which the film is transported, and a control circuit for determining a starting time, a first stopping time, a writing frequency of writing information to the magnetic memory portion of the film, and a second stopping time to stop transporting the film, in response to the first and second detection sensors.

Camera using a film with a magnetic memory portion

A camera using a film which has a magnetic storage part comprises a magnetic head which is arranged to read or write information out of or into the magnetic storage part of the film; and a release device for releasing a positional relation between the magnetic head and the film from an information reading or writing state in which the magnetic head reads or writes the information, until the film is wound around a spool or when the film is stopped.

Camera with retractable magnetic head and retractable pad

A camera using a film with a magnetic memory portion including a first data setting unit for setting data voluntarily set by a user, a recording unit for recording the voluntarily set data together with an ID for the voluntarily set data on the magnetic memory portion of the film, a second data setting unit for setting predetermined data other than the voluntarily set data, and a control unit for causing the recording unit to record the predetermined data together with the ID for the voluntarily set data on the magnetic memory portion of the film.

Camera using a film with a magnetic memory portion and having a control

A camera using film with a magnetic recording portion, is provided with a magnetic head for effecting the writing or reading-out of information onto or from the magnetic recording portion of the film during feeding of the film, and a motor for feeding the film. The motor has a commutator and brushes contacting with the commutator, and is disposed so that the tangential direction of brushes with respect to the commutator may be substantially parallel to a line linking the output shaft of the motor and the head gap of the magnetic head together.

Camera using film with magnetic recording portion having film feeding

There is provided a camera using a film with a magnetic memory. The camera capable of reading or writing information with respect to the magnetic memory of the film includes a movable member which moves as the film moves while the film is being fed; a magnetic head for reading or writing the information which magnetic head is provided in the movable member and is moveable together with the movable member; and an amplifying circuit for amplifying a signal output from the magnetic head so as to transmit it to a control circuit of the camera which amplifying circuit is provided in the movable member and is movable together with the movable member.

Camera using film with magnetic memory

A camera provided with a loading chamber for loading a cartridge housing an image recording medium, a cover member for covering a cartridge loading aperture of the loading chamber, a resilient member for biasing the cartridge loaded in the loading chamber toward the loading aperture, and a support member for supporting the cartridge in the loading chamber against the biasing force of the resilient member and releasing the supporting action, in response to a movement of the cover member in a direction to open the loading aperture.

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Tokyo, Japan

Hideo Tamamura