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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 1997
Filed:
Jul. 20, 1994
Daniel Timothy Meyerhoefer, Penfield, NY (US);
James Vergil Leavy, Churchville, NY (US);
J David Cocca, Pittsford, NY (US);
Michael Timothy Malley, LeRoy, NY (US);
Gerald Julius Kosarko, Rochester, NY (US);
Robert Gordon Hills, Spencerport, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A camera system includes a user friendly interface to enable a camera user to enter text data to be printed on a photographic film in a simple and convenient manner. The user interface is also used to display text messages to the user indicating certain camera conditions. More specifically, a camera is provided that includes a display unit, a display control interface for manually selecting text data to be displayed on the display unit and a control unit for controlling the operation of the display unit to display the text data selected by the manual user interface. The display unit preferably includes a text data display section and fixed icon display section.