Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.

Konica Corporation

Masanori Kawai

Tatsuji Kurogama

Yoshiaki Kimura

Kiyotaka Murakami

Mitsuru Watanabe

Koji Matsushima

Takashi Hatano

Haruhiko Momose

Yoshinori Mochizuki

In a camera for receiving an electric wave including position information from a satellite of Global Positioning System and for recording a photographing position together with a photographed image, wherein a photographing attitude of the camera is arbitrarily changed in accordance with an image to be photographed, the camera comprises an enabling device to make the receiving of the electric wave through an antenna possible regardless of the photographing attitude of the camera.

Camera utilizing a satellite positioning system

A method for detecting a focal point uses an optical system which includes a laser diode light source, a beam-splitter prism having three surfaces with one surface perpendicular to luminous flux emanating from a recording medium and another surface inclined relative to the first, an objective lens between the prism and the recording medium, a photodetector, and an apparatus capable of moving the objective lens perpendicular to the recording surface. The method using this apparatus includes the steps of placing the prism so that the incident angle of the flux through the objective lens is less than the emergent angle of the flux from the prism to the photodetector, detecting the intensity of the light, and driving the objective lens in response to an electrical signal.

Process for detecting a focal point in an optical head

A moving type image recording apparatus wherein an image on an original document is recorded on a substance to be recorded by moving an apparatus body having a recording device, the recording device being driven based on an information from a detecting device for detecting a moving amount of the apparatus body. A device for reading the image on the original document, a memory device for storing an image information from the reading device, and an edit device for the information stored by the memory device are provided.

Moving type image recording apparatus

A hand-held copying apparatus has a reading window of a read division disposed on a leading end outwardly of two parallel rollers which define a reference plane placed on the surface to be read. A storage division for storing information read by the read division is provided integrally with the read division, and information stored in the storage division is recorded through a recording head which is moved relatively along a recording paper at a speed corresponding to the moving speed of the apparatus detected by a movement encoder mechanism.

Hand-held copying apparatus

A method of purging or cleaning ink passages of an ink jet recording device of the type in which a series of ink droplets is ejected from an orifice of a printing head towards a recording medium by the volume displacement of a pressure chamber provided in the printing head, including the steps of applying pressure required for purging to ink within an ink supply source, keeping a valve to open wide and forming a flow of ink in ink passages in one direction towards the orifice, thereby to remove bubbles and impurities present in the ink passages together with the discharged ink. Furthermore, in the present invention, there is provided a suction means associated with the ink jet recording device, which is used to obtain more excellent purging effect in combination with the above-mentioned steps.

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Hachioji, Japan

Masanori Kawai