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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:
Apr. 19, 1994
Filed:
Feb. 12, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hideyuki Irie, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Kurei, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ; G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
354441 ; 354159 ; 3541951 ;
Abstract
A camera having a variable photographing aperture, including a photographing aperture size changing device that changes the size of the photographing aperture, and an exposure calculating device for calculating exposure factors including a diaphragm value and a shutter speed in accordance with the brightness of an object to be photographed. The camera further includes an exposure adjusting device which modifies the exposure factors when the photographing aperture is changed. The invention is also directed to a control method of a variable photographing aperture camera.