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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:
Nov. 02, 1993
Filed:
Apr. 21, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
354221 ;
Abstract
This invention provides a viewfinder which is mounted separately from a taking lens on a camera and wherein the occupying space of a parallax-correcting prism is minimized to arrange freely its optical design. And also, this invention provides a viewfinder decreasing the difference of the diopter and the fuzziness of the image between normal photographing mode and macro photographing mode. To achieve these objects, this viewfinder comprises a prism arranged in the optical path of said viewfinder to correct the parallax, and a driving mechanism to slide said prism in the direction normal to the axis of said lens system.