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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. 02, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 06, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Takashi Okada, Sakai, JP;
Shigeto Ohmori, Sakai, JP;
Hideki Nagata, Sakai, JP;
Tsutomu Honda, Sakai, JP;
Kiyoshi Seigenji, Sakai, JP;
Toshihiro Hamamura, Osaka, JP;
Tougo Teramoto, Wakayama, JP;
Takashi Kato, Sakai, JP;
Hiroaki Kubo, Settsu, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ; G03B / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
396246 ; 396257 ; 396374 ; 396429 ; 348 64 ; 348296 ; 348333 ; 348340 ; 348363 ;
Abstract
A camera divides a light beam having passed through a taking lens unit into two light beams. One light beam forms an image on a silver salt film. Another light beam forms an image on a CCD. A light path for said another light beam is provided with an aperture diaphragm. The taking lens unit has an aperture diaphragm. Said two aperture diaphragms are correlatively controlled by a controller incorporated in the camera.