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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:
Feb. 02, 1988
Filed:
Oct. 30, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
354403 ;
Abstract
The disclosed device prevents degradation of distance measurement accuracy due to alignment error in the mounting of a detachable lens barrel on a camera body. The lens barrel houses a focusing objective lens and a first distance measurement position is set along the optical path of the objective lens within the lens barrel. A second distance measuring position is set within the camera body. A light projector is positioned at one of the distance measuring positions and projects a measuring beam, and a photo detector is positioned at the other of the distance measuring positions to receive a reflection beam from the object being measured to produce a signal to be used for focus adjustment.