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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:
Jan. 24, 1995
Filed:
Apr. 14, 1993
Anton F Wilson, Hanover, NH (US);
William V Koskuba, Stratford, CT (US);
Anton/Bauer, Inc., , US;
Abstract
A photographic lighting system for use with a camera provides fill light from the direction of the camera to alleviate shadows in a photographic image obtained by the camera. The photographic lighting system includes an incident light sensor for sensing the incident light intensity on a subject to be photographed, an electric light for directing fill light toward the subject, and a control circuit for controlling the intensity of the fill light provided by the electric light in response to the sensed incident light intensity. The fill light is increased in intensity as the incident light intensity increases. The control circuit can also receive a distance input representative of the distance between the electric light and the subject and controls the fill light in response to the distance input such that the fill light intensity at the subject is substantially independent of the distance. A sensitivity input to the control circuit permits the fill light intensity to be compensated for the sensitivity of the camera.