Nippon Kogaku K.k.

Fujitsu Corporation

Nikon Corporation

Osamu Maida

Sunao Ishizaka

Hiroshi Hasegawa

Takashi Saegusa

Yoshikazu Iida

Nobuyoshi Hagyuda

Akira Katayama

Toru Fukuhara

Hidehiro Ogawa

Chikara Tsuchiya

Yoshiyuki Nakano

Yoshiaki Sano

Mikio Takemae

Yuji Okubo

Hiroaki Tanaka

A flash exposure apparatus for eliminating red-eye effect employs first and second flash devices in conjunction with a camera. The camera outputs a first release signal prior to an exposure operation and a second release signal in synchronism with the exposure operation. A detecting device detects completion of preparation (charging) of flash light emission of the flash devices. When the completion of preparation of flash light emission of both flash devices is detected, the first and second flash devices are caused to emit light in response to the first and second release signals, respectively. When the completion of preparation of flash light emission of only one flash device is detected, only that flash device is caused to emit light in response to the second release signal. In another embodiment a main flash device emits light for illuminating an object, and an auxiliary flash device emits light, prior to emission by the main flash device, to decrease the pupil diameter of a human eye. A detecting device detects the focal length of a photo-taking lens, and the emission energy of the auxiliary flash device is increased as the detected focal length becomes longer.

Flash exposure apparatus for avoiding red-eye effect

A camera in which the exposure of a film is controlled includes means for making a digital signal, converting means for converting the digital signal from the making means into an analog signal and putting out the analog signal, means for detecting the brightness of an object to be photographed and producing an analog brightness signal indicative of the detected brightness of the object to be photographed, means for comparing the analog signal from the converting means with the brightness signal, the means being adapted to put out a comparison signal when the analog signal from the converting means and the brightness signal assume a predetermined relation, the making means putting out to the converting means a digital signal indicative of exposure information concerned in the control of the exposure of the film on the basis of the digital signal made by the making means when the comparison signal is put out, the converting means converting the digital signal indicative of the exposure information into an analog signal, and means for controlling the exposure of the film on the basis of the exposure information converted into the analog signal.

Exposure control device of a camera

A camera is capable of using a film cartridge bearing code indicia indicating the film speed of the film contained in the cartridge. The camera comprises first means for detecting the film speed from the code indicia of the film cartridge loaded in the camera and generating a first corresponding signal, and second means for manually setting the film speed and generating a second corresponding signal. The camera further comprises discriminator means connected to the first and second means and adapted to generate an output signal upon detection that neither the first nor the second signal is generated, and means for generating an alarm in response to the output signal of the discriminator means.

Film speed setting device for camera

An aperture control system comprises compensating means for actuating an electromagnetic latch mechanism at an earlier time to compensate errors in controlled aperture values due to the mechanical time delay in the electromagnetic latch mechanism, and means for setting a compensated amount in the compensating means in accordance with the error in a controlled aperture value for each interchangeable lens.

Aperture control system for cameras

A film sensitivity setting device for camera is provided with a circuit board comprising a first information unit with a conductor pattern which detects the film sensitivity information signal from a film cartridge having such signal and corresponds to the information signal of the manually set film sensitivity, and a second information unit with a conductor pattern for transmitting the detected information signal, wherein the exposure of the film is controlled according to the information signal obtained by electrical contact with the conductor pattern of either the first or the second information unit.

Film sensitivity setting device for camera

A film feed control apparatus generates an output signal for instructing the rewinding of the film when a wind operation for a frame of a film is stopped before it is completed and the number of exposed frames has exceeded a nominal number of exposures. The film feed control apparatus stops the power supply to a wind motor when the wind operation is stopped before the number of exposed frames reaches the nominal number of exposures.

Camera film feed control apparatus

Apparatus for detecting code indicia containing electrically conductive contacts and being indicative of one or more characteristics of the film contained in the film cartridge, comprises a wall member forming a chamber for receiving the cartridge. The wall member has through-holes provided at positions opposed to the code indicia. The apparatus is further provided with a circuit substrate disposed on the side opposite to the chamber and opposed to the wall member and having thereon an electric circuit means for reading the characteristics of the film. The circuit substrate has electric terminals. The apparatus further includes electrically conductive contact members being slide-movably inserted into the respective through-holes on the wall member. Each of the contact members has two ends one of which contacts with one of the code indicia and the other end contacts with one of the electric terminals.

Camera provided with means for detecting information on film cartridge

A power supply control circuit for controlling power supply through a power switch to a battery-operated circuit. The control circuit includes circuitry for keeping the power supply to the battery-operated circuit for a predetermined holding time after the power switch has been turned off, the holding time being reduced as consumption of the battery develops.

Power supply control circuit

A camera is provided with a detecting means provided with detecting contacts capable of positively detecting an information code on a film cartridge loaded in a film chamber and so arranged that they will not adversely affect the stability of the film cartridge loaded in the film chamber.

Device for detecting code on film cartridge

A camera into which a magazine containing a film therein and provided with means indicative of information concerning the film speed of the film can be loaded includes a device for detecting the film speed of the film on the basis of the information when the magazine is loaded into the camera and producing a first film speed signal indicative of the detected film speed, a device for manually setting the film speed of the film and producing a second film speed signal indicative of the set film speed of the film, a device for detecting the difference between the film speeds of the film indicated by the first and second film speed signals and producing a warning signal, a device for drawing out the film from the loaded magazine, and a device for hindering the production of the warning signal in response to the draw-out of a predetermined amount of film from the magazine.

Camera provided with a mechanism for detecting the film speed of a film

In a camera having a stop drive mechanism adapted to be driven by an electric motor to vary a stop aperture and a film wind-up mechanism adapted to be driven by the electric motor to wind up a film, the electric motor is rotated to drive the stop drive mechanism before exposure of the film, and it is also rotated to drive the film wind-up mechanism after the exposure of the film. The rotating speeds of the electric motor in the first rotation to drive the stop drive mechanism and in the second rotation to drive the film wind-up mechanism are independently variable.

Motor driven camera

Display apparatus for an automatic exposure control camera wherein, when the exposure control mode is automatically changed over from one mode to another, a display is presented to the photographer to indicate the fact of the change over.

Display apparatus for automatic exposure control camera

An integrated circuit has an input voltage-clamping function and an input current-detecting function. A voltage-clamping circuit is provided for clamping a voltage at the input signal terminal, the voltage being clamped in response to an input current greater than a first predetermined value supplied to the input terminal. A current detecting circuit is also provided for detecting whether the input current supplied to the input terminal is greater than a second predetermined value, whereby the single input terminal for signals is used for both functions, i.e., the input voltage-clamping function and the input current-detecting function.

Integrated circuit having an input voltage-clamping function and an

In an electronic flash apparatus, electric power is alternately supplied by a same power source to the voltage elevating circuit for charging the main capacitor for flash emission and to other circuits provided in the flash unit or in the camera, such as a light emission control circuit for controlling the quantity of emitted light, an indicator circuit for indicating the completion of the charging of the main capacitor, an indicator circuit for indicating whether the light emission control is in operation, an alarm circuit for indicating an inadequate setting of the flash unit etc.

Electronic flash apparatus

A camera in which light-sensing means is exposed to the light from an object to be photographed passed through stop means includes means for setting the aperture value of the stop means, means for driving the stop means in a direction in which the aperture value of the stop means is coincident with the aperture value by the setting means, prior to the exposure of the light-sensing means, metering means including a light-receiving element adapted to receive the light from the object passed through the stop means and produce an output corresponding to the intensity of the received light, the metering means producing a metering output corresponding to the brightness of the object on the basis of the output of the light-receiving element, means for controlling the exposure time of the light-sensing means in order that the light-sensing means may obtain a proper exposure, on the basis of the metering output after the stop means has been driven by the driving means, and discriminating means for discriminating, prior to the driving of the stop means, that the intensity of the light received by the light-receiving element after the termination of the driving of the stop means is lower than a predetermined value, on the basis of the metering output before the stop means is driven by the driving means, and putting out a discrimination signal.

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Osamu Maida