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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:
Apr. 17, 1984
Filed:
Mar. 26, 1982
Applicant:
Inventors:
Yukichi Niwa, Yokohama, JP;
Yasuo Ogino, Yokohama, JP;
Mitsutoshi Ohwada, Yokohama, JP;
Kazuo Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Noboru Koumura, Narashino, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ; H04N / ; G01C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
354403 ; 358227 ; 356-4 ; 354408 ;
Abstract
This specification discloses a distance detecting device in a camera for detecting the relative positional relation between two detection images of an object obtained by two optical systems spaced apart from each other by a predetermined base length, to thereby enable the distance from the camera to the object to be known, characterized in that the picture-taking optical system of the camera is used also as one of the optical systems.