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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. 26, 1994
Filed:
Apr. 07, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hiroshi Kurei, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ; G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
354402 ; 354159 ; 354 94 ;
Abstract
An object distance measuring apparatus of a camera including an image area size varying device which varies the size of an image area, a multi-point measuring device having a plurality of object distance measuring elements to meter the object distances of an object in a large picture plane at different measuring points, and an object distance measuring element selecting device which selects a plurality of outputs of the object distance measuring elements in accordance with the size of the image area selected by the image area size varying device.