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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.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 1997

Filed:

Apr. 05, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:

Minoru Ishiguro, Omiya, JP;

Minoru Takahashi, Omiya, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
396 61 ; 396 63 ; 396 64 ;
Abstract

A photometry part measures a brightness within a shot visual field. A focusing part measures a distance up to a main subject. A focal length measuring part measures a focal length of a taking lens. A strobe light control part directs a strobe to flash regularly and decreases a strobe exposure gradually from a standard exposure in accordance with the measured parameters. The measured distance at which the exposure of the strobe is decreased, is defined as the strobe changeover distance. The strobe light control part sets the strobe changeover distance to be long as the focal length at photographing becomes long, so that the exposure of the main subject on the image surface can be kept proper.


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