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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:
Jun. 29, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Keisuke Aoyama, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
354406 ; 354409 ; 354474 ;
Abstract
This invention relates to a camera having a focus detecting device for independently detecting the focus states at a plurality of different distance measurement points. This invention provides in such camera a selection circuit for selecting the distance measurement points, and an indicating circuit for indicating the distance measurement points selected by the selection circuit, and provides an indicating device for preindicating a distance measurement point selected before the focus detecting operation and indicating the selected distance measurement point again when the selected distance measurement point is judged to be in focus by the focus detecting operation.