Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Nec Electronics Corporation

Mikasa Shoji Co., Ltd.

Koji Yasuda

Masanao Wakikawa

Tsuneyo Metabi

Fumitaka Kikuchi

Gaku Suzuki

Hiroshi Yamaura

Tetsuya Mori

Atsushi Kondo

Masahiro Tonami

Kozaburo Nakamura

Shigeaki Funaki

Kenji Kusunoki

An imaging device includes: a shake detection unit that holds a gyro sensor inside the shake detection unit; a first sheet metal and a second sheet metal that sandwich the shake detection unit in two facing directions; a first cushion member that abuts on the first sheet metal and faces the shake detection unit via the first sheet metal; and a second cushion member that abuts on the second sheet metal and faces the shake detection unit via the second sheet metal.

Imaging device

An electronic device includes: an electronic part; an external case that covers the electronic part and constitutes an exterior; and a heat dissipation frame that transmits heat generated from the electronic part to the external case. The external case includes a top case, a front case, and a rear case, while the heat dissipation frame includes a first heat dissipation frame, a second heat dissipation frame, and a third heat dissipation frame provided independently from each other. Mechanical fixation is made to combine the top case and the first heat dissipation frame into one body, to combine the front case and the second heat dissipation frame into one body, and to combine the rear case and the third heat dissipation frame into one body.

The rotary dial apparatus of the present disclosure includes: a housing; a dial being rotatably held relative to the housing; a magnet rotating in accordance with rotation of the dial; and a magnetic sensor disposed in the housing and detecting rotation of the magnet. The magnet and the magnetic sensor are disposed in different regions from each other with a wall being interposed between the magnet and the magnetic sensor.

Rotary dial apparatus, imaging apparatus-use body and imaging apparatus

A camera body includes a flare cutter, a front case, and a control board. The flare cutter includes a first opening. The front case is disposed facing a first face of the flare cutter, and includes a second opening at a position facing the first opening. The control board is disposed on a second face of the flare cutter that is opposite the first face. When the flare cutter is viewed from outside of the front case, a part of the control board does not overlap with the flare cutter.

Camera body

The imaging apparatus includes a lens mount to which a lens unit is mountable, an imaging unit operable to generate an image signal, and a shutter unit that is arranged between the lens mount and the imaging unit, and is capable of limiting the light incident on the imaging unit, opening and closing at least at recording and being kept in an opened state during a recording preparation operation, and a main frame to which the lens mount, the shutter unit and the imaging unit are fixed.

Imaging apparatus including metal main frame as assembly basis

A heat dissipating structure for an imaging unit includes an imaging element configured to convert light into an electrical signal, a first heat dissipating plate, a second heat dissipating plate, and a heat dissipating portion. The first heat dissipating plate has a first end and a second end disposed opposite to the first end, and is positioned on the rear face side of the imaging element. The second heat dissipating plate is positioned on the rear face side of the first heat dissipating plate. The heat dissipating portion is fixedly coupled to the first end of the second heat dissipating plate.

Heat dissipating structure for an imaging unit

An imaging apparatus includes a mount to which a lens unit is mountable, an imager operable to generate an image signal from light incident through the lens unit, a light-emitter operable to emit light, and an electric storage device operable to supply electric power to the light-emitter. The electric storage device is disposed behind the mount and below the imager.

Imaging apparatus

Imaging apparatus containing lens mount without mirror box

A flash unit includes a flash device operable to emit flash, a storage member operable to store the flash device, a cover with which the storage member is covered from above, and to which the flash device is attached, a first link member that is turnably connected to the storage member at one end and turnably connected to the cover at another end, and a retaining member. The first link member is stored in the storage member in a lying state when the flash device is not used, and the first link member is adapted to turn about a connection portion of the first link member and the storage member to take a raised up state in which a connection portion of the first link member and the cover is located above the connection portion of the first link member with the storage member when the flash device is used, the cover can turn about the connection portion with the first link member to take the raised up state in which the flash device is raised higher than the connection portion with the first link member, and the retaining member retains the first link member in the raised up state.

Flash unit and imaging apparatus

A camera body that includes a lens attaching unit to which an interchangeable lens unit including a lens-side contact is mountable and that communicates information with the interchangeable lens unit when the interchangeable lens unit is attached to the lens attaching unit, the camera body comprising: a substrate; a holding member fixed to the substrate and formed of a conductive material; a body-side contact that is electrically connected to the lens-side contact when the interchangeable lens unit is mounted to the camera body and that is held by the holding member so as to be movable between a projected position at which the body-side contact projects from the holding member and a retracted position; and a biasing unit that biases the body-side contact to the projected position, wherein the body-side contact is electrically connected to the holding member.

Camera body, interchangeable lens unit, and imaging apparatus

The present invention relates to a programmable-gate-array copy protection method and a system which prevent unauthorized copying of an FPGA program. A copy protection method for a field-programmable gate array, the method comprising a step of causing a user-specific gate array to boot a user circuit data to the field-programmable gate array, the user-specific gate array being connected to the field-programmable gate array and a memory device in which the user circuit data is stored and being pre-programmed at a semiconductor-vender's factory.

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Osaka, Japan

Koji Yasuda