Nippon Kogaku K.k.

Nikon Corporation

Mikihito Furuya

Tsutomu Wakabayashi

Takashi Saegusa

Koichi Daitoku

Shigemasa Sato

Tsuyoshi Sato

Tsutomu Mitsuishi

Hisaki Koyama

A visual line detection camera includes a detector to detect the visual line position of a photographer, an area determination device to determine the fixation area using an equation containing compensation terms unique to the photographer in conjunction with the results of detection accomplished by the detector, a display to display the area corresponding to the fixation area obtained by the area determination device, a fixation area selector enabling the fixation area to be altered by external operation, and a compensating factor adjustment device to alter the compensation terms in the equation when the area determined by the equation and the fixation area after alteration are different as a result of alteration by the fixation area selector. This structure enables the camera to adapt to different photographers in accordance with different photographer physical attributes, providing a visual line detection camera with a high degree of reliability.

Visual line detection camera and method

In an image recording apparatus in which a pinch roller restrains lateral movement of image receiving paper, a skew feed roller and an edge guide are operative, by virtue of a curved portion of the paper feed path between the pinch roller and the skew roller, to position the paper laterally despite the restraint imposed by the pinch roller. The skew roller and the edge guide are disposed along a straight portion of the paper feed path.

Image recording apparatus

A display method and apparatus for a camera wherein when there is a possibility of achieving an optimal exposure for a preset aperture by closing or opening a diaphragm, a warning is displayed, so that the operator is informed of the fact that an optimal exposure can be obtained if he resets the aperture.

Display method and apparatus for camera

A device for connecting printed wiring boards or sheets as overlapped one on the other, is constructed with a pressing member having a top part and at least a pair of side walls depending from the side edges of the top part; an elastic member received into a space between the side walls with its bottom end part slightly protruding from the bottom edge of the side wall; a base plate, on which the mutually overlapped printed wiring boards or sheets are placed; and a pressure applying member which exerts force to press-contact the contact points on the printed wiring boards or sheets between the pressing member and the base plate through the elastic member.

Device for connecting printed wiring boards or sheets

In a camera including an electromagnetic release device for releasing a shutter mechanism for the purpose of exposure in response to the moving operation of a release member over a predetermined stroke, a mechanical release device for releasing the shutter mechanism for the purpose of exposure in response to the moving operation of the release member over a stroke exceeding the predetermined stroke, and a limiting device for limiting the movement of the release member within the range of the predetermined stroke in response to the electromagnetic release mode selecting operation of a mode selecting member and for releasing the limitation in response to the mechanical release mode selecting operation of the mode selecting member, there is provided means for impeding the operation of the change-over device for the selection of the mechanical release mode when the electromagnetic release mode is selected, releasing means operable to release the impediment by the impeding means, and means for operatively associating the release of the limitation by the limiting device with the operation of the releasing means.

Camera with selectable electromagnetic and mechanical shutter release

In a camera provided with a motor driven device, a switch is employed for effecting ON-OFF operation of the device, and switch means is operatively associated with the advance lever of the camera and is adapted to assume different positions for the retracted position and the drawn-out position of the advance lever. The switch and the switch means are arranged so that the switch is closed for the retracted position of the advance lever and open for the drawn-out position of the advance lever.

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Yokohama, Japan

Mikihito Furuya