Nikon Corporation

Masami Takemoto

Setsu Mitsuhashi

Nobuhiro Fujinawa

Takashi Kuriyama

Masakazu Sekiguchi

Motoki Toyama

Hiroto Nagamine

Yosuke Kusaka

Masahiro Suzuki

Hideya Inoue

Hideki Matsui

Hiroyuki Tomita

Hirotake Nozaki

Hideo Hibino

Hideo Hoshuyama

Yoshihisa Kitagawa

Tadashi Fujimura

Hirofumi Yamazaki

An electronic device includes: a communication unit that performs communication with an external device; and a control unit that issues a command to the external device via the communication unit, on the basis of at least one of capacity of the external device, and capacity of the electronic device.

Electronic device, imaging device, image reproduction method, image reproduction program, recording medium with image reproduction program recorded thereupon, and image reproduction device

An electronic cameraautomatically transmits captured image data and user identification information to a gateway serverover a wireless portable telephone linkThe gateway servermanages image albums created on a per-user basis on multiple image servers on the Internetautomatically selects one of the multiple image servers based on the user identification information received from the electronic cameraand stores the image data received from the electronic camerain an image album corresponding to the user identification information on the selected image server.

Image transmission system, image relay apparatus, and electronic image device

A used viewfinder determination section determines whether an optical viewfinder is being used or if a liquid crystal monitor is being used, based upon signals from an eye approach detection section. A blur correction operation changing section changes a blur correction operation by a blur correction lens in accordance with determination results from the used viewfinder determination section. When it is determined that the optical viewfinder is not being used, a blur correction operation using the blur correction lens is not carried out.

Image blur correction camera and method for controlling of image blur correction

An illuminating device for photographing includes: an illuminating unit having a plurality of current-controlled light emitting elements, which illuminates a subject with light emitted from the plurality of light emitting elements; a storage unit in which light emission brightness information is stored in correspondence to each of the plurality of light emitting elements; and a light emission control unit that controls light emission at the plurality of light emitting elements based upon the light emission brightness information stored in the storage unit so that the plurality of light emitting elements achieve uniform brightness levels at the subject.

Illuminating device for photographing and camera

A camera executes a photographing operation with multiple flashes. The camera includes a photometering unit and a control unit. The control unit controls light emission at a first electronic flash unit which is either built into or externally mounted at the camera and transmits a light signal constituting a preliminary light emission command to a second electronic flash unit provided separately from the camera by engaging the first electronic flash unit in light emission. The photometering unit photometers a subject when the second electronic flash unit executes a preliminary light emission. The control unit allows a photographing operation to be executed if a photometered value detected at the photometering unit is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value.

Camera system

A camera which performs visual line detection, and which assigns priority to photography when a release operation is performed during calibration information input for visual line detection. The camera includes an input unit to input into the camera calibration information relating to an eye of a photographer. The calibration information is automatically input when the photographer contacts an eyepiece of a viewfinder. A calculation unit calculates the visual line of the photographer, based upon the input calibration information and the state of the eye of the photographer looking through the viewfinder. A setting unit sets photographic conditions based upon the calculated visual line. When a release operation is performed during the action of calibration information input, a priority action execution unit suspends the input of calibration information, and the priority action execution unit actuates a photographic unit such that photography may be performed. Further, previously input calibration information is overwritten with the latest data such that calibration information for the present photographer is automatically input.

Camera having a visual line detection device

A vibration reducing camera comprises a vibration reducing optical system, a vibration reducing drive unit for reducing vibrations by changing a state of the vibration reducing optical system, a state detecting unit for detecting a state of the vibration reducing optical system, a fixing unit for fixing the vibration reduction optical system in a predetermined initial state, a photographic condition changing unit for performing a predetermined number of photographing operations while stepwise changing a part of photographic conditions, a photographic condition setting unit for setting at least a number of exposures in the photographic condition changing unit, and a control unit for controlling the vibration reducing drive unit, the state detecting unit, the fixing unit and the photographic condition changing unit. The control unit defines the allowable range of variation quantity of the vibration reducing optical system on the basis of a number of exposures and an already-exposed number that are set in the photographic condition setting unit.

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Tokyo, Japan

Masami Takemoto