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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:
Mar. 23, 1993
Filed:
Jan. 14, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
35419512 ; 3542891 ; 354222 ;
Abstract
A camera which has a photo-taking lens capable of zooming, and a viewfinder which shows a first photographing range and a display which displays one frame defining a second photographing range smaller than the first photographing range, wherein out of photographing range showing mode is provided. And when the out of photographing range mode is selected, after zooming operation is carried out, the second photographing range is exposed on a film, whereby the visual field in the finder can be enlarged and, provided that a camera has a focus detector, the focus detecting area can be relatively enlarged.