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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:
Aug. 19, 1997
Filed:
Nov. 22, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Nobuo Matsukawa, Tokyo, JP;
Sunao Nishioka, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ; G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
396121 ; 396296 ;
Abstract
A camera quickly selecting a focus detection region or a light metering region while seeing a finder picture. A region selection member is provided so that an operating surface of the region selection member is substantially parallel to a finder picture.