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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 1977
Filed:
Jan. 26, 1976
Applicant:
Inventors:
Clemens Hopfner, Stuttgart, DT;
Wolfgang Ort, Stuttgart, DT;
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
354 29 ; 354 31 ; 354 43 ; 354 51 ;
Abstract
A camera shutter having a light-responsive circuit that regulates movement of the shutter to effect an exposure of duration related to actual scene brightness, an exposure-limiting device that operates to limit the duration of the exposure to correspond to a predetermined scene brightness, means for selectively disabling the exposure-limiting device, and shutter reset apparatus that, if the exposure-limiting device is disabled during an exposure, reenables the device when the shutter is reset.