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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:
Sep. 06, 1994
Filed:
Sep. 24, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ichiro Taguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
354221 ; 35419512 ; 359705 ;
Abstract
A parallax and/or diopter correcting apparatus in a camera having a photographing optical system separate from a finder optical system, including a reflecting mirror provided in the finder optical system to change the direction of the optical axis thereof. A reflecting mirror driving mechanism is provided for rotating the reflecting mirror in a first rotational direction to move the segment of the finder optical system optical axis, located in front of the reflecting mirror, towards the optical axis of the photographing optical system, and/or for rotating the reflecting mirror in a second rotational direction perpendicular to the first rotational direction.