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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:
Jun. 27, 1989
Filed:
Dec. 01, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kunio Imai, Hachioji, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358225 ; 358180 ; 354106 ; 354222 ;
Abstract
An image pickup apparatus including an image pickup device for picking up the image of a subject, a zoom lens of changing a magnification for the image entering the image pickup device, and a scan range changing circuit for changing the scan range of the image pickup device. It enlarges and reduces the image signal by a combination of a variable magnification of the zoom lens and a variable scan range of the image pickup device.