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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. 12, 1993
Filed:
Oct. 08, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ; G03B / ; G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
354402 ; 354432 ; 354219 ;
Abstract
A camera comprising a gazing line detection device for obtaining the gazing point by detecting the movement of the gazing line of a user so that a proper photometry range is automatically set by selecting a specific method from a plurality of photometry methods in accordance with the distribution of the gazing points thus obtained.